Functional Finance Fantasy
March 08, 2010 at 17:10 PM EST
When people discuss the fiscal stimulus package of the Obama Administration they frequently use the word “Keynesian” to label those theories that support this policy. But the reality is that these theories owe more to the economist Abba P. Lerner than to John Maynard Keynes. Lerner, building on Keynes, called it “functional finance.” Lerner, unlike [...]