Post Keynesian Monetary Economics

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

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

In this book Stephen Rousseas presents a critical overview of some of the central themes of Post Keynesian monetary economics. As Rousseas sees it, Post Keynesian monetary economics rejects the neoclassical and monetarist apporaches. The money supply is seen as a function of nominal income rather than the other way

This book provides cutting-edge material elaborating on monetary circuit theory and post-Keynesian monetary economics. It contributes to a new approach to monetary analysis, which provides original insights into the complex fields of money, banking, and finance.

This work offers a post-Keynesian critique of monetarism and of contemporary Keynesian theory, calling for a return to the ideas of John Maynard Keynes. The book's primary emphasis is on the endogeneity of the money supply and on the financial innovations that have served to limit the effectiveness of monetary