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, and other social and behavioral sciences, especially evolutionary psychology, suggest that individual human beings may be … resources is the exclusive and immutable concern of human individuals. The natural sciences, evolutionary biology in particular …
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Most mainstream neoclassical economists completely failed to anticipate the crisis which broke in 2007 and 2008. There …
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This paper presents an overview of different models which explain financial crises, with the aim of understanding economic developments during and possibly after the Great Recession. In the first part approaches based on efficient markets and rational expectations hypotheses are analyzed, which...
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This paper explores the intellectual history of the state, or chartalist, approach to money, from the early developers (Georg Friedrich Knapp and A. Mitchell Innes) through Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, and Abba Lerner, and on to modern exponents Hyman Minsky, Charles Goodhart, and...
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The term 'Institutional Economics' has been applied to some of capitalism's strongest critics as well as its most … ardent apologists. This paradox in terms has bred contradictory literature in development economics, some declaring the death … of this line of thought while others herald its resurgence. In examining the roots of Institutional economics, this paper …
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This paper examines the views of Hyman Minsky and Abba Lerner on the functional finance approach to fiscal policy. It argues that the main principles of functional finance were relatively widely held in the immediate postwar period. However, with the rise of the Phillips curve, the return of the...
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The currency reform on 20 June 1948, together with a comprehensive liberalisation of prices and the implementation of monopoly control, formed the basis for the West German economic miracle. From then on, the market principles formulated by Walter Eucken und implemented by Ludwig Erhard became...
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possible. These three propositions are used to build a theory of money that is linked to common themes in the heterodox …, and Charles Goodhart). Hence, this paper takes a somewhat different route to develop the more typical heterodox …
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The pluralism debate in economics that has been going on for two decades has not yet been able to provide an exhaustive … teaching and research by the so-called neoclassical mainstream, despite a meanwhile institutionalized "Pluralist Economics …
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methodological individualism. But Hayek polarizes, not only between followers and opponents, but also within the representatives of …
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