Endogenous currency and banking passivity: a critical analysis of the “horizontalist” approach and the “monetary circuit theory"

Vol. 19 No. 4 (1999)

Oct-Dec / 1999
Published October 1, 1999
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How to Cite

Freitas, Maria Cristina Penido de. 1999. “Endogenous Currency and Banking Passivity: A Critical Analysis of the ‘horizontalist’ Approach and the “monetary Circuit theory"”. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 19 (4):685-704. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31571999-1080.

Endogenous currency and banking passivity: a critical analysis of the “horizontalist” approach and the “monetary circuit theory"

Maria Cristina Penido de Freitas
Pesquisadora da área política, econômica e estudos financeiros da Fundap-IESP. São Paulo/SP Brasil.
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 19 No. 4 (1999), Oct-Dec / 1999, Pages 685-704

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present a critical analysis of Post-Keynesian approachs that support the thesis of an extreme endogeneity of money creation. Neither horizontalists nor monetary circuit theorists give special attention to the dual and dialectic aspects of banks, profit oriented institutions which are responsible for money creation and for financial intermediation. Because of these aspects, banking competition is the core of financial instability and credit dynamics. Having as their main goal competition for profits, banks act procyclically helping to amplify the instability of the capitalist economy, and to stimulate financial speculation activities instead of industrial investments, which is the source of wealth and material reproduction in capitalist economies.

JEL Classification: E44; E51; G21; E12.


Keywords: Post-Keynesianism monetary economics banks monetary emission bank competition