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Keynes vs the classics

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This short presentation was created to support a discussion concerning the debate between economist J. M. Keynes and the classic economic school of thought. The main purpose of the presentation was understanding why Keynes did not believe that flexible wages would lead to full employment equilibrium.
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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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