John Maynard Keynes and Economic Theory

The article under review here suggests one of the ways in which full employment can be achieved is through the manipulation (by the government) of fiscal policy, a manipulation that necessarily will have an effect on the Gross Domestic Product. An expansionary monetary supply tends to lead to increases in the Gross Domestic Product, with the converse also being true. Keynes argued that such an expansionary monetary supply (which is under the control of the federal government) will also increase the rate of employment. Thus there is a link (although it is correlative rather than causative) between high rates of employment and rises in the GDP. (Both of which result from an expansionaty monetary policy.)

To understand why this is, we must understand an underlying principle, which is the idea of aggregate demand-aggregate supply. While to some extent this concept is independent, it is also of course part of larger contemporary economic theory.

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of the Solow growth model. Goddard, Romilly and Tavakoli (1995) use a spreadsheet to solve the Mundell-Flemming (IS-LM-BP) model. While they do not specify how the spreadsheet solves the model, it is assumed that they employ this iteration function. A good alternative method for solving simultaneous equations is using matrix algebra commands. Judge (1990b) develops an IS-LM model using Lotus 1-2-3 and solves it by using matrix algebra commands. A more recent example of this model and technique may be found in the spreadsheet chapter of Judge (2000). This paper explores how aspects of neoclassical economic theory can be integrated into a dynamic new Keynesian (aggregate demand-price adjustment) macroeconomic model.(note 2) For clarity we define neoclassical models as models in which prices are perfectly flexible and expectations are rational, so markets are in equilibrium as long as all information is known. New Keynesian models may have sticky prices or non-rational expectations, so markets do not immediately return to the long-run equilibrium. The basic new Keynesian aggregate demand-price adjustment model used in this paper was developed as Supplement 3 to our Cahill and Kosicki (2000) paper. The supplement is available at htt
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