In May 2011, the editors of Intervention: European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, which is now named the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (EJEEP), decided to put together a special issue on post-Keynesian and Institutional Economics.

The paper analyses some well-known explanations of the eurozone crisis and seeks to provide an answer to the question of whether expansionary fiscal policy is feasible within the restrictive confines of the existing structure of the eurozone. The paper addresses this question by focusing on a...

The author reflects on the state of macroeconomic theory, and more specifically on how monetary economics is being taught in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Whereas heterodox macroeconomic theory is very much alive due to the influx of a large number of contributions and...

Lance Taylor received a BS degree with honours in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1962 and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1968. He has been a professor in the economics departments of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among other...