Sunday, June 19, 2011

Elsewhere

  • Alejandro Nadal asks, "Whatever happened to stability analyisis?" (h/t: Brad DeLong).
  • A blogger with the pseudonym of "Lord Keynes" critiques Austrian Business Cycle Theory, based on Sraffa's demonstration of the non-uniqueness of the "natural" rate of interest in an intertemporal equilibrium.
  • Jayati Ghosh provides access, from here, to an essay surveying Michal Kalecki's contributions to development economics.
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5 comments:

  1. Alex M ThomasJune 19, 2011 9:49 AM

    Hi Robert,

    A correction. Jayati Ghosh is a woman.

    Alex

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  2. Lord KeynesJune 19, 2011 10:15 AM

    Hi,

    Thanks for linking to my post.
    Out of interest, I wonder do you - as someone who has done good work critiquing ABCT - know if modern Austrians like

    (1) M. Skousen in The Structure of Production (New York, 1990).

    (5) Gerald P. O’Driscoll and Mario J. Rizzo in The Economics of Time and Ignorance (Oxford, UK, 1985), pp. 198–213.
    and
    (6) Roger Garrison in Time and Money: The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure (London and New York, 2000)

    still use the Wicksellian natural interest concept?

    If not, how do they define the natural rate?

    Is Sraffa's critique still applicable to Roger Garrison's work?

    Regards

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  3. Robert VienneauJune 20, 2011 8:15 PM

    Thanks Alex. I made a correction.

    LK, I'm working on a long comment on your blog.

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  4. Lord KeynesJune 21, 2011 12:50 AM

    Thanks for your comment.

    Is you work criticing the natural rate in ERE in these artciles?:

    Vienneau, R. L. 2006. “Some Fallacies of Austrian Economics,” September
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=921183

    Vienneau, R. L. 2010. “Some Capital-Theoretic Fallacies in Garrison’s Exposition of Austrian Business Cycle Theory,” September 4
    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1671886

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  5. dictateursanguinaireJune 25, 2011 2:54 PM

    I've just read Ghosh's obituary/overview of Kalecki on Monthly Review. Very well written for the neophyte/mostly autodidact-ic economist (e.g. moi)

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