Books reviewed: Schettkat, Ronald/Langkau, Jochem (Hg.) (2007): Aufschwung für Deutschland. Plädoyer international renommierter Ökonomen für eine bessere Wirtschaftspolitik, Bonn Roncaglia, Alessandro/Sylos Labini, Paolo (2008): Geschichte des ökonomischen Denkens. Eine kurze Einführung,...

Books reviewed: Jonathan P. Goldstein/Michael G. Hillard (eds.) (2009): Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx and Globalization, London Mathew Forstater/L. Randall Wray (eds.) (2008): Keynes for the Twenty-First Century. The Continuing Relevance of The General Theory, Basingstoke L. Randall...

First paragraph: During the recent decades the financial sectors of developed and developing countries as well as global financial relations have changed remarkably. The overall importance of financial factors for real investment and growth of non-financial business has risen, as has the...

First paragraph: The Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) has existed since 1996 as a platform for analysis, research and discussion of macroeconomic issues. It is primarily based in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but it has established close links to similar...

First paragraph: The world economy is presently suffering from the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression in the early 1930s. As by now seems to be obvious, the present financial crisis, massive state intervention in the financial markets in order to prevent a melt-down, and...

Books reviewed: Joachim Becker, Andrea Grisold, Gertraude Mikl-Horke, Reinhard Pirker, Hermann Rauchen schwandtner, Oliver Schwank, Elisabeth Springler, Engelbert Stockhammer (2009): Hetero doxe Ökonomie, Marburg Herbert Schui (2009): Gerechtere Verteilung wagen. Mit Demokratie gegen...

Books reviewed: G.C. Harcourt, Prue Kerr (2009): Joan Robinson, Basingstoke Tracy Mott (2010): Kalecki's Principle of Increasing Risk and Keynesian Economics, New York David Colander (ed.) (2006): Post Walrasian Macroeconomics. Beyond the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model, Cambridge...

Books reviewed: Julio Lopez G., Michael Assous (2010): Michal Kalecki, Basingstoke Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Valeria Miceli (2010): Sovereign Wealth Funds. A Complete Guide to State-Owned Investment Funds, Petersfield Hansjörg Herr, Milka Kazandziska (2011): Macroeconomic Policy Regimes in...

Books reviewed: Hein, E. and Stockhammer, E. (2011): A Modern Guide to Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Policies, Cheltenham, UK Claudio Sardoni (2011): Unemployment, Recession and Effective Demand. The Contributions of Marx, Keynes and Kalecki Stephan Schulmeister (2010): Mitten in der...

First paragraph: The financial and economic crises which started in 2007 have triggered and motivated increasing research on finance and the instability of the financial system but also on the relationship between finance, distribution and growth. This special issue discusses various, but...