The paper aims to investigate how the macro agent-based literature, which has developed intensively since 2000, analyzes the issue of financial instability. Within this new paradigm, attention is focused on two research communities engaged in researching this question: the Keynes and Schumpeter...

New Keynesian Economics that rely on the DSGE technology has been criticized as being hopelessly inadequate for dealing with financial crises of the type that we have seen in recent years or - more generally - with failures of the intertemporal price mechanism to coordinate investment and...