A baseline integration of commercial banks into the disequilibrium framework with behavioral traders of Charpe et al. (2011, 2012) is presented. At the core of the analysis is the impact the banking sector exerts on the interaction of real and financial markets. Potentially destabilizing...

Contents: Preface -- Part I Classical competition: theory, evidence, and criticism -- 1. François Quesnay: Circular flow and input-output -- 2. Adam Smith: The 'invisible hand' and accumulation -- 3. Adam Smith II: The 'invisible hand' and 'natural prices' -- 4. David Ricardo: Prices,...

The current crises in the financialization of capitalism, and their repercussions on the financial viability of entire countries, severely question the achievements of mainstream economics and its disregard of Keynes's theory of effective demand and finance. In view of this, Peter Flaschel and...