• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The full employment interest rate implicit in classical economic theory
  • Contributor: Cole, Nicolas D.
  • imprint: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022
  • Published in: Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1007/s40844-022-00244-6
  • ISSN: 1349-4961; 2188-2096
  • Keywords: General Medicine
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>By including the rate of normal profit in a simple model of the macro-economy, the full employment interest rate is deduced to be 4½% at which Labor is not exploited by Capital. Criticisms by Marx and Keynes of the free-market economy were misdirected at Classical theory instead of the manipulation of interest rates by Central Banks to favour Capital over Labor.</jats:p>