The Common Error of Common Sense: An Essential Rectification of the Accounting Approach

23 Pages Posted: 6 Aug 2012 Last revised: 9 Apr 2015

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Egmont Kakarot-Handtke

University of Stuttgart - Institute of Economics and Law

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Date Written: August 5, 2012

Abstract

The present paper takes the explanatory superiority of the integrated monetary approach for granted. It will be demonstrated that the accounting approach could do even better provided it frees itself from theoretically ill-founded notions like GDP and other artifacts of the equilibrium approach. National accounting as such does not provide a model of the economy but is the numerical reflex of the underlying theory. It is this theory that will be scrutinized, rectified and ultimately replaced in the following. The formal point of reference is ‘the integrated approach to credit, money, income, production and wealth’ of Godley and Lavoie.

Keywords: new framework of concepts, structure-centric, axiom set, primacy of theory, income, profit, distributed profit, money, flow, residual, transaction matrix, general complementarity

JEL Classification: E01, B41

Suggested Citation

Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont, The Common Error of Common Sense: An Essential Rectification of the Accounting Approach (August 5, 2012). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2124415 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2124415

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