Quantum macroeconomics: A tribute to Bernard Schmitt

Bernard Schmitt, the founder of quantum macroeconomics, died on 26 March 2014. His legacy concerns the discovery of the logical laws of monetary macroeconomics and extends to the explanation of the origin and nature of economic and financial crises. Starting from a novel conception of bank money, he...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Cencini, Alvaro, Gnos, Claude, Rossi, Sergio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/685353
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/685353
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cesjef.2016.04.001
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Financial crises
Inflation
Monetary economies of production
Money and banking
Sovereign debt
Quantum macroeconomics
Unemployment
Economía
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Sumario:Bernard Schmitt, the founder of quantum macroeconomics, died on 26 March 2014. His legacy concerns the discovery of the logical laws of monetary macroeconomics and extends to the explanation of the origin and nature of economic and financial crises. Starting from a novel conception of bank money, he was able to show that economics is founded on true macroeconomic laws, which take the form of logical identities. This paper is a brief and necessarily incomplete introduction to the main themes of Schmitt's macroeconomic analysis. It ranges from the distinction between money and income that lies at the hearth of his theory of the circuit, to the investigation of inflation and unemployment as pathological manifestations of a macroeconomic disorder, to the groundbreaking discovery of the mechanism of duplication leading to the formation of sovereign debt.