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Srinivas Thiruvadanthai on the Sectoral Financial Balance Approach to Macroeconomics

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Release Date: 10/14/2019

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Srinivas Thiruvadanthai is a managing director and the director of research at the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center. Sri joins the show today to talk about the sectoral financial balance approach to macroeconomics as well as the safe asset supply challenge. David and Sri also discuss the fallacy of composition in macroeconomics, post-Keynesianism and how it differs from mainstream economic thought, and potential solutions to help ease the cost of being the banker to the world.

 

Transcript for the episode: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/podcasts/10172019/srinivas-thiruvadanthai-sectoral-financial-balance-approach-macroeconomics

 

Sri’s Twitter: @teasri

Sri’s JLFC profile: https://www.levyforecast.com/about-us/srinivas-thiruvadanthai/

 

Related Links:

 

*Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth* by Wynne Godley and Marc Lavoie

http://dl4a.org/uploads/pdf/Monetary+Economics+-+Lavoie+Godley.pdf

 

David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com
David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth