Steve Keen in the video below discusses the history of the international payments system as designed at Bretton Woods, and in particular Keynes’s Bancor plan versus Harry Dexter White’s plan, as well as modern money and banking.
The talk was given at the Meeting of Finance Ministers of Latin America in Quito on November 29th 2013.
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Speaking of Steve Keen, have you read the various posts where Krugman discusses Steve Keen and Cullen Roche?
ReplyDeleteI am afraid I have not, but I will add them to my "to read" list.
DeleteHere are his posts discussing Cullen Roche:
Deletekrugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/banks-and-the-monetary-base-wonkish/
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/commercial-banks-as-creators-of-money/
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/the-monetary-base-is-lm-and-all-that-very-nerdy/?_r=0
And here are his posts discussing Steve Keen:
Deletekrugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/minksy-and-methodology-wonkish/
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/banking-mysticism/?_r=0
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/banking-mysticism-continued/
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/oh-my-steve-keen-edition/
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/misunderstanding-is-lm-wonkish-and-unimportant/