Showing posts with label Monetary Circuit Theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monetary Circuit Theory. Show all posts

Saturday, February 28, 2015

Steve Keen — What Is Money And How Is It Created?

 Augusto Graziani, an Italian Professor of Economics, who died early last year ... understood what money is because he posed and correctly answered a simple question: how does a monetary economy differ from one in which trade occurs by barter?
Forbes
What Is Money And How Is It Created?
Steve Keen

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Steve Keen and the Minsky moment


Read it at The Financial Times | Alphaville

Steve Keen and the Minsky moment

by Kate Mackenzie
(h/t Andy Blatchford via email)

Interesting tidbits:
In fact, he doesn’t even really have a widely-used clever acronym yet. He told us that monetary circuit theory/MCT is the best one, and it’s one that already has a Wikipedia entry with several Keen-related footnotes.
Oh, and we are not hating on Keen, but there’s a prize* for the commenter who most accurately guesses Izzy’s concern with his theories.
Any takers?