Keynesian Multiplier

Louis-Philippe Rochon is Associate Professor of Economics at Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada. Claude Gnos is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, in France.

• Introduction, Section One: Some Views of the Multiplier, 1. Three Views on the Multiplier, 2. John Maurice Clark’s Contribution to the Genesis of the Multiplier Analysis: A note with some related unpublished correspondence, 3. The Material and Methodological Significance of the Supermultiplier, Section Two: Critical Insights on the Multiplier , 4. The Investment Multiplier and Income Savings, 5. The Multiplier and the Principle of Reflux, 6. The Demise of the Keynesian Multiplier Revisited, 7. Consumption, Investment and Investment Multiplier, Section Three: Towards a Re-interpretation of the Muliplier , 8. Kalecki and the Multiplier, 9. The Keynesian Multiplier: The Monetary Pre-Conditions and the Role of Banks as Defended by Richard Kahn’s 1931 Paper. A Horizontalist Re-Interpetation, 10. The Multiplier, the Principle of Effective Demand and the Finance Motive: a coherent framework.