This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of the first, and definitive, biographical dictionary of dissenting economists. It is an extensive and authoritative guide to economists both past and present, providing biographical, bibliographical and critical information on over 100 economists...

Over the past two decades there has been a prevailing shift in economic policy in many countries. This reflects the continuing rise of neo-liberalism--the doctrine that economic policy should "leave it to the market" and that governments should retreat from market intervention. This book...

1. Critique of the New Consensus Macroeconomics and a Proposal for a More Keynesian Macroeconomic Model- Philip Arestis -- 2. Approaching budget deficits, debts and money in a socially responsible manner- Malcolm Sawyer -- 3. Advances in the Post Keynesian Analysis of Money and Finance- Marc...

In the past few decades, and intensified since the global financial crisis of August 2007, heterodox macroeconomics has developed apace and its scope has broadened in a number of directions. The purpose of this volume is to review the "state of the art" in heterodox macroeconomics, its strengths...