Teaching Keynes's Principle of Effective Demand Using the Aggregate Labor Market Diagram


Publication: Journal of Economic Education

Volume: Volume 34, No. 4

Issue: Fall 2003

Pages: 333-340

Author(s): Paul Dalziel (Lincoln University) and Marc Lavoie (University of Ottawa)

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Title: Teaching Keynes's Principle of Effective Demand Using the Aggregate Labor Market Diagram

Abstract: The authors suggest a way to teach Keynes's principle of effective demand using a standard aggregate labor market diagram that incorporates Kalecki's version of effective demand. They show Keynesian unemployment as a point on the aggregate labor demand curve inside the aggregate labor supply curve where workers and firms are unable to restore full employment by reducing real wages.

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