Post-Keynesian Monetary Theory

Post-Keynesian Monetary Theory recaps Marc Lavoie's views on monetary theory over a 35-year period, seen from a post-Keynesian perspective. The book contains a collection of nineteen previously published papers, as well as an introduction which explains how these papers came about and how they were received. All of the selected

Rousseas (economics, Vassar College) extends the banking data to 1990, showing how events have supported the argument of the 1985 first edition: that post-Keynesians have largely ignored the problem of financial innovations, and that incomes policy cannot work without simultaneous credit controls. Assumes a fair degree of sophistication in economic

During the past five years, crises in the US savings and loan industry, commercial banks, and other financial institutions have borne out the ideas that Rousseas expressed in the first edition. His main theme stresses the role of innovation in the financial sector of the economy and its implications for

This book shows how the realistic foundations and stylized facts of Post-Keynesian economics give rise to macroeconomic implications that are different from those of received wisdom with regards to employment, output growth, inflation and monetary theory, and offers an alternative to neoclassical economics and its free-market economic policies.

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