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Ashraf  Islam  -­‐  Beatrice  Irullo  -­‐  Veronica  Jenvild    

Keynes VS

the Classics

16-­‐10-­‐14  

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‘There  is,  therefore,  no  ground  for  the  belief  that  a  

flexible  wage  policy  is  capable  of  maintaining  a  state  

of  conRnuous  full  employment…  The  economic  system  

cannot  be  made  self-­‐adjusRng  along  these  lines’.  

(Keynes  1936:  267)  

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The  classics  

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Labour  market    

Supply  

Demand  

Market  mechanism  

Full  employment    

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Say’s  Law    

Supply  =  Demand  

 

Barter  economy  

 

Weak  version  à  implied  full  employment  

 

Strong  version  à  guaranteed      

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QTM    

Price  level  determinaRon  

 

Classical  dichotomy  

 

EffecRveness  of  monetary  policy  to  increase  output/

employment  

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Keynes  effect  

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W P   Md   r  

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Hillier  &  Vane,  Modern  Macroeconomics  ,2005,  p.115,  graph  (a)    

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W P   Md   r   I   Y

unemployment  

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NAIRU  

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Thank  you!  

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Bibliography    •  Hillier  B.,  The  Macroeconomic  debate.  Models  of  the  closed  

and  open  Economy,  Oxford  and  Cambridge:  Basil  Blacwell,  1991.  ch  2.  

•  Snowdon,  B  &  Vane  H.  R.,  Modern  Macroeconomics:  Its  origins,  development  and  current  state,  Cheltenham:  Edward  Elgar,  2005.  ch.2.  

•  Trevithick,  J.  A.,  Involuntary  unemployment.  Macroeconomics  from  a  Keynesian  persecDve,  London:  Harvester  Wheatsheaf,  1992.  ch  4.  

•  Keynes,  J.  M.,  The  general  theory  of  employment,  interest  and  money,  1936.  ch.19.  


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