🔬 Discovery

IS–LM model

Modelo IS-LM

Date
1936 (presentado) / 1937 (publicado) · confidence high
Place
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Credited to
John Hicks
Field
Knowledge & symbols

What was discovered

At an Econometric Society conference in Oxford, Hicks presented a two-curve graphical model, investment-saving (IS) and liquidity preference-money (LM), that summarized Keynes's theory of employment, interest and money in mathematical terms. The model became the dominant framework of macroeconomic analysis for several decades.

What it led to

  • Neoclassical synthesis in macroeconomics
  • Modern monetary and fiscal policy based on formal models
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Built on

  • Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

Made possible

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