Revisiting 'New Cambridge': The Three Financial Balances in a General Stock-Flow Consistent Applied Modeling Strategy
Levy Economics Institute Working Paper No. 594
33 Pages Posted: 15 May 2010
Date Written: May 12, 2010
Abstract
This paper argues that modified versions of the so-called “New Cambridge” approach to macroeconomic modeling are both quite useful for modeling real capitalist economies in historical time and perfectly compatible with the “vision” underlying modern Post- Keynesian stock-flow consistent macroeconomic models. As such, New Cambridge–type models appear to us as an important contribution to the tool kit available to applied
Keywords: Stock-flow Consistent Models, New Cambridge, Aggregate Financial Balances, Heterodox Applied Macroeconomics
JEL Classification: B50, C82, E
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