The Political Economy of U.S. Monetary Policy: How the by Edwin Dickens

By Edwin Dickens

Mainstream economists clarify the Federal Reserve’s habit over its 100 years of lifestyles as (usually failed) makes an attempt to stabilize the economic system on a non-inflationary development course. an important financial occasion in the course of these first 100 years used to be the alternative of fastened alternate premiums, according to a gold-exchange typical, with versatile trade rates.

In this ebook, Dickens explains how versatile alternate charges grew to become essential to accommodate the Federal Reserve’s relentless efforts to avoid innovative social switch. it's argued that the Federal Reserve is an institutionalized alliance of the massive ny banks and the massive neighborhood banks. whilst those teams of banks are united, they represent an unassailable strength within the classification clash. besides the fact that, whilst the big local banks are at loggerheads with the big manhattan banks over the right kind position of financial institution clearinghouses through the populist interval, besides the correct position of the Eurodollar industry throughout the social democratic interval, there's a gap for revolutionary social reforms.

This booklet builds upon Hyman Minsky’s monetary instability speculation in addition to the Marxian version developed by way of Thomas Piketty. It follows Piketty’s old approach to deepening our knowing of the present Neoliberal period (1980-2014) of world monetary capitalism through evaluating and contrasting it with the 1st period of world monetary capitalism—the Gilded Age (1880-1914). by contrast with Piketty, besides the fact that, this ebook comprises financial components, together with financial coverage, into the set of determinants of the long-run cost of monetary progress. This ebook is acceptable if you research political financial system, banking in addition to macroeconomics.

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These policy prescriptions are based on two assumptions and one causal claim. The two assumptions are that equilibrium aggregate output and the velocity of money are constant. The causal claim is that changes in the stock of money cause changes in the price level. In this chapter, I demonstrated that, once the difference between Keynes’s concepts of probability and risk and the orthodox ones are taken into account, the assumption that equilibrium output is constant is invalid. Instead, it changes with the monetary policy pursued by the monetary authority.

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