Money as a medium of exchange and monetary growth in an underdevelopment context |
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Authors: | Basant K Kapur |
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Institution: | Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., USA;University of Singapore, Singapore 10, Singapore |
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Abstract: | This paper constructs a neoclassical monetary growth model applicable to less developed economies, in that (1) the economy is assumed to be labour-surplus (as a result of which its steady-state growth rate is an endogenous variable), and (2) differential savings propensities on the part of profit- and wage-earners are postulated. The model predicts that an increase in the rate of monetary expansion increases the steady-state rate of inflation, increases the capital-labour ratio, reduces the money-labour ratio, and reduces the steady-state growth rate. Because of this last-mentioned fact, an inflationary policy is held to be unfavorable to economic development, despite the fact that it increases the capital-labour ratio. Some implications of the analysis for the well-known ‘choice of techniques’ problem are also discussed. |
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