The author of a paper in a previous issue of Journal of Post Keynesian Economics suggested that developments in behavioral finance might lead Post Keynesian economists to a new "general theory of financial behavior." We note that Post Keynesian-Institutionalist theories of financial markets have...

The Greenspan---Bernanke doctrine on how the Federal Reserve responds to stock market bubbles reflects an ideological allegiance to the rational markets theories of stock prices while reluctantly accepting the analytical insights of the speculative markets theories of the Post Keynesians and...

We develop a perspective on where Bernanke is taking the Federal Reserve by drawing from Paul Davidson's Post Keynesian analyses of the current financial crisis and the Federal Reserve as an effective market maker and Thorstein Veblen's perception that the Federal Reserve was supporting...