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The “A” Factor: The Rise of Growth as the Principal Goal of Policy. The Development of Macro-economics in an Era of Wars/Cheap Energy and Disrespect for Earth. Alternate title. Getting to a Bad Place for Good Reasons. The Economist March 2002. John Maynard Keynes ( 1883-1946). - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The “A” Factor: The Rise of Growth as the Principal Goal of
PolicyThe Development of Macro-
economics in an Era of Wars/Cheap Energy and Disrespect for Earth
Alternate title
Getting to a Bad Place for Good Reasons
The Economist March 2002
John Maynard Keynes(1883-1946)
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mglondon/London/Keynes/keynes.htm
The war and the threat of depression and another war. .
Vimy Ridge: Never Again?
The Versailles Treaty
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/text/versaillestreaty/vercontents.html
Versailles’ conditions on Germany
• Excessive reparations (almost 4 times the actual damage inflicted).
• Marine merchant fleet.
• Territory with coal mines was taken away.
• Tariff concessions to luxury goods from other countries.
The Depression
A Nervous Wreck
from Literary Digest , 7/5/1919
The General theory
• Critiques of Prevailing Economics.
• Aggregate demand.
• Liquidity trap.
• Breaking out of the liquidity trap:
government intervention.
The General Theory
Critiques of Existing Economic
Theory
Jean-Baptiste Say (1776-1832)
http://www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/economy/library/economists/say.htm
1. “Supply creates its own demand.”
No idle money
2. Income is either spent on commodities
and services or is put into savings. This
portion is loaned to someone else who
invests it.
Between workers and employers
3. All unemployment is voluntary.
Problems
• Equilibrium can be reached at any level of
employment. Supply may not create
enough demand to soak up all the labor.
• Not all income is invested.
• Not all unemployment is voluntary.
The General Theory: Elements
Aggregate demand
• We have to pay attention to the total
amount of demand.
• The aggregate demand function measures the volume of sales which corresponds to each level of income and output.
Income
Liquidity Trap
People hold money for reasons that are
related to uncertainty about the future.
Liquidity Trap
Liquid Less liquid
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http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/auct.htm
Breaking out of the liquidity trap
Policy tools: Fiscal-taxing/spending and Monetary Policy-Money supply
Government intervention
• Public works (e.g., housing, schools, hospitals,
roads, parks) .
The multiplier effect on investment
Investment 1,000
National Income 2,000
Government Intervention
Income
“Even if the community puts the
unemployed to work at useless jobs,
the income from this labour will be
expended on food, clothing, shelter,
medical care, and recreation.”
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Taxes
Monetary Policy
• The increase in the money supply to correspond to and stimulate growth.
• The extreme liberalization of the authority to create financial instruments/1980s and 1990s. An era of very cheap credit—2008-12.
Business Cycle
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The Goals of Macro Policy
• Growth
• Low inflation, but NOT deflation
• “Full” employment
Reasons for Growth
• Population Increase
• Productivity
• Poverty
• More consumption means more happiness
• Social and political stability
• But……………
The Triple Crisis
• The employment/population crisis: Policy tool/macro policy.
• The money crisis: there is more money than there is Earth. Policy tool/deception: if you have more money you must be richer.
• The collapse of the Earth’s life support systems. Policy tool/deny what we already know-disable the ability to learn more.