Université de Fribourg

Money, Income, and Profit : Lessons from the Monetary Theory of Production

Carrera, Andrea ; Rossi, Sergio

In: Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2015, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 48-60

In this paper we analyze Augusto Graziani’s numerous contributions to the monetary theory of production, which he developed from a theoretical but also a policy-oriented perspective. We focus on the rejection of the neoclassical dichotomy, the causal relation between production and money creation, and the definition of macroeconomic saving. These three dimensions of Graziani’s work can be...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Profit theory : a new macroeconomic approach

Carrera, Andrea ; Cencini, Alvaro (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2016 ; 2016ECO006.

Profit and its investment in productive activities lie at the heart of modern monetary economies. Indeed, it is thanks to profit investment that fixed capital is produced and used by companies to increase the number of consumption goods and, ultimately, to increase the wealth of households. Yet, despite economists’ full understanding of corporate gains from a microeconomic standpoint,...