A economia monetária da produção capitalista de Keynes sob a perspectiva de compreensão da história e da teoria

Abstract

The main objective of the paper is to discuss, from a historical-theoretical point of view, the role of the John Maynard Keynes’ monetary economy of production. At the time, Keynes’ greatest dissatisfaction was attributed to the role that (neo)classic economists attributed to money in a capitalist economy. Indeed, he did not even use the term capitalist economy, but rather the term monetary economy of production to highlight the social importance of money in a mercantile-monetary economy. The main conclusion is that Keynes’ monetary economy of production may be a monetary economy of capitalist production, or a monetary-financial economy of capitalist production given the growing importance of cash flows recorded on balance sheets and in the statements of financial position of companies in the contemporary capitalist economy.