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Dollarization: Endless endogenous supply?
So:
a. Nations (beside the USA) opt to use dollars for money.
b. Local banks lend dollars to producers, merchants and
credit card consumers at high enough rates of interest to
cover lending costs--including bad debts.
c. Thus exogenous injections of dollars by actors other
than borrowers (repaying loans) are not required??
In particular, local fiat money is not required to
create purchasing power to fill the gap created
by the disparity between wages and aggregate
prices of things they produce for sale??
d. Or, is it that the gap will be the same after dollarization
as it was before: except that after dollarization, overall
efficiency is improved, as sales and purchases are made
simpler when only dollars are needed to play?
e. If deficiencies in purchasing power are not cured by
dollarization -- and from all of the above it seems they
will remain uncured -- then the appeal of dollarization
is not great.
After all, non-neutral fiat money -- even if we
are afraid to use it as medicine for deflationary
spirals -- remains a happy thought while we
suffer prolonged unemployment until war puts
people to work
OR
Have I still got everything (endogenous money and
purchasing power, etc.,) all wrong?
John Gelles
- Thread context:
- postdocs and studentship,
Terry McDonough Wed 06 Nov 2002, 15:59 GMT
- Letter from Bob Solow,
pdavidso Wed 06 Nov 2002, 15:53 GMT
- Re: Outside the box: Dollarization - reply to John G.,
Niggle, Christopher Tue 05 Nov 2002, 00:23 GMT
- Neo-Marxist Schools,
helmet4000 Mon 04 Nov 2002, 15:23 GMT
- J. M. Keynes and Life Insurance Companies,
Policyholder Sat 02 Nov 2002, 15:46 GMT
- Brazil and the IMF,
James K. Galbraith Fri 01 Nov 2002, 16:32 GMT
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