2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Critical Study of Modern Money Theory (MMT) from Marxian and Keynesian Conceptions of Money
Project/Area Number |
21K13266
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Review Section |
Basic Section 07020:Economic doctrines and economic thought-related
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Research Institution | Tokyo Institute of Technology (2022-2023) Oita University (2021) |
Principal Investigator |
Ehara Kei 東京工業大学, リベラルアーツ研究教育院, 准教授 (20782022)
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Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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Keywords | マルクス / ケインズ / MMT / 貨幣 / 金融 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this study was to compare the scope of Marx's theory of commodity money with that of Keynesian chartalist theory, and to examine whether it could achieve the policy goals of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Regarding monetary theory, a new theory of money, including structural reorganization, was presented in the single-authored book "Redesigning Marxian Theory of Value" (Sakurai Shoten, 2024). Based on this, critical examination was applied to MMT, and the prospect of achieving the democratic social vision pursued by MMT through "degrowth monetary theory" was obtained.
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Free Research Field |
マルクス経済学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
ケインズ派の表券貨幣論のうちに論じられてきた信用貨幣論が,マルクス派の商品貨幣論にも取り込みうることを明らかにした点に,学術的意義がある。これにより,ケインズ派とマルクス派の基本的争点は,信用貨幣の扱いではなく,国家の取り扱い方にあることが浮き彫りとなった。貨幣論は純粋に経済理論・思想的な問題なのではなく,現実の政策の指針となるべきものであり,「脱成長貨幣論」のように,貨幣論史の観点から政策的議論にコミットできることが示された点が,社会的意義である。
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