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3 - Rawls, Lerner, and the Tax-and-Spend Booby Trap

What Happened to Monetary Policy?

from Part I - Rawls and History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2023

Paul Weithman
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
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This chapter examines John Rawls’s uncritical acceptance of “sound” finance, how it reflects his use of his constructive method, his influences in neo-classical economics, and the regrettable consequences. It also suggests how we can unlearn deference to neo-classical thinking, using Rawls’s method, in view of Abba Lerner’s functional finance and an egalitarian form of central banking.

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Print publication year: 2023

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