Both Rosa Luxemburg and Michal Kalecki utilised Marx’s scheme’s or reproduction as the starting point of their analysis of economic dynamics. However, Luxemburg did not realise that they were not meant to serve as models of capitalist growth, but rather to show that the conditions for stable...

This paper has suggested a number of reasons why Keynes would have been critical of the way ISLM developed in the hlaf century after his death.

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Radical changes in macroeconomic policy could produce a brighter future. The neoclassical myth that a free-market economy inevitably moves to an equilibrium position determined solely by supply-side factors must be rejected and replaced by the insight that the position of an economy in the...

Kalecki was one of the co-developers of the principle of effective demand. This was used by many economists, in the post war period, to argue that government fiscal policy could be used to stimulate effective demand and fine tune the economy to reduce cyclical unemployment. Kalecki, however, was...

This document contains three texts. The first one discusses Capital Theory, the second one discusses Keynes achievements and the third one its General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

The Traverse refers to the movement of the economy outside equilibrium. It requires a consideration of how an economy may achieve equilibrium, and how it may navigate towards a new one if conditions change. Analysis of these themes, from the classical economists onwards, leads to the conclusion...

In this Introduction, we discuss the main themes of post-Keynesian economics, and the manner in which they are dealt with by the contributors to the Handbook. In particular, the important aspects of post-Keynesian analysis are identified, and their main critiques of mainstream theory are...

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The paper reconstructs the simple Keynesian IS-LM model form Keyne's (1930) theory of the aggregate price. It does by constructing the total cost and revenue functions that are implied by Keyne's theory of price. The paper points out how the price theory contains an incorrect definition of...