[Marxism] Re: interest rate debate

["Xxxx Xxxxxx" <xxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frankly, I don't know what is so new about the argument that market interest
rates are themselves responses to discount rate changes, rather than being
outcomes of Fed policy. Even a standard Fed economist acknowledges this
fact. I was impressed by the originality of those arguments in the socialist
scholars conference.

anyhow, just a quick contribution to Gandall's post:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/past/1992/

The Response of Market Interest Rates to Discount Rate Changes (PDF 5.3M),
Michael J. Dueker

More so than Gepstein or Pollin (who are semi-Keynesian/Minskians, bwt) it
was Edwin Dickens, who actually wrote about the impact of class conflict on
the determination of Fed policies. Do these people even acknowledge the
literature while giving a presentation? Amazing:-))


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Department of Political Science
Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
University at Albany, S.U.N.Y.
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