Finance, inflation and employment: A post-Keynesian/Kaleckian analysis

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1015-1033

  Argitis, Georgios ^a   Dafermos, Yannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Debt payment commitments; Finance; Phillips curve; Post Keynesian Kaleckian macroeconomics

Indexed keywords

DEBT; EMPLOYMENT; EXPENDITURE; FINANCE; INFLATION; INVESTMENT; KEYNESIAN THEORY; MACROECONOMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; WAGE;

EID: 80155124223     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/ber002     Document Type: Article

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