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Global Application of Keynesian Solutions



I have a friend interested in subject matter.
 
If we search for global Keynesian solutions
(beyond domestic or national K. solutions)
we may find that the global market itself
is one big Keynesian solution.    Why?
 
Because there is no legal tender when you
trade outside your own nation. If you do not
like a hard scarce money that may be re-
quired at home, you can trade with people
far away who are happy to sell you real stuff
against a softer money payment you are
willing to offer.
 
In fact, you can resort to international barter
which is an ultimate Keynesian solution.
 
A global Keynesian solution that looked to
global legal tender would mean waiting for
global (or treaty created global) money that
could satisfy any money debt.  That type of
solution may be decades away.
 
If we think of Keynesian solutions as mainly
those that create living wage jobs for every
willing worker -- that too is automatically done
when any place is sovereign. It can print its
own money and guarantee full employment
at an estimated living wage. 
 
Making the estimate become as good as
food on the table is a matter of supply not
demand.
 
So global Keynesian solutions are no more
than an application of successful supply side
economics.
 
          As you can see, only the constraints
on output imposed by taxes and interest are
standing in our way -- globally speaking.
 
John Gelles
 
 
 
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