June Flanders (2015) provides a useful introduction to Hyman Minsky’s views on banking and macroeconomics. Minsky’s “financial instability hypothesis” (FIH) basically says that debt-based intermediation does not enable intertemporal equilibrium but rather self-generates boom and bust...

The Federal Reserve System is a major sponsor of monetary economics research by American economists. I provide some measures of the size of the Fed’s research program (both inputs and published outputs) and consider how the Fed’s sponsorship may directly and indirectly influence...