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Chapter 29: Financial Markets and Loanable Funds Theory — Economics 101

How savers and borrowers meet in the loanable funds market to set the real interest rate — and why Keynes’s liquidity preference theory adds a second, faster channel for short-term rates.
Chapter 50: The Keynesian View and Fiscal Policy — Economics 101

Keynes challenged classical economics by showing that recessions can persist because wages are sticky and saving doesn’t automatically become investment. His remedy — government spending during recessions — works through a multiplier effect. But the inflation-unemployment trade-off he implied breaks down when inflation expectations shift.