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Comment on ‘Properties of Monetary Systems’

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In recent years Allan Meltzer has published several analytical studies of Keynes’s General Theory (see, e.g., Meltzer, 1981, 1983a). He wrote of the General Theory: I find in Keynes’ General Theory an economic argument based on the belief that fluctuations in output impose social costs that cannot be removed by private action. (Meltzer, 1983a)

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Zannis Res Sima Motamen

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© 1987 Zannis Res and Sima Motamen

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Wood, G.E. (1987). Comment on ‘Properties of Monetary Systems’. In: Res, Z., Motamen, S. (eds) International Debt and Central Banking in the 1980s. Studies in Banking and International Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08329-9_8

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