Comment on Steve's [OPE-L:3462]:
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>
>And I've done the equations, which, putting it mildly, are a horror.
That's one argument for approaching simplified models to get the
methodology straight before tackling the full complications of reality.
>
>The one conclusion that I can draw from it at present which might be of
>interest here is that the money supply turned out to be endogenous. I
>introduced moneylenders (strictly, a single moneylender), and all
>transactions between sectors, workers & capitalists (buying/selling both
>labor-power and subssitence commodities), and capitalists and
>moneylenders, were carried out via the bank balances of capitalists as
>maintained by the moneylenders.
>
>It turned out that bankers' "hoards", which were necessary to have them
>undertake the role of bankers, were augmented/decremented by the
>capitalist process, but did not directly determine anything in the
>system.
I'm familiar with this type of treatment of finance. You don't say so
explicitly, but I suspect that you hold the price level constant, or
determine it historically as part of the assumptions. I would be cautious
in calling these features of your model "conclusions", since it sounds as
though you've assumed an endogenous credit money system to begin with.
Duncan
Duncan K. Foley
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