With recent turmoil in financial markets around the world, this unique and up-to-date book addresses a number of challenging issues regarding monetary policy, financial markets and macroeconomic policy. While some of the chapters address the recent crisis as well as adjustments to the Basel...

Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Economic policies for growth and development / Hassan Bougrine and Louis-Philippe Rochon -- Part 1: Economic growth and post-Keynesian economics -- 1. Celebrating pioneers / Louis-Philippe Rochon and Hassan Bougrine -- 2. Autonomous demand growth,...

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, there has been an unprecedented move towards 'rethinking economics' due to the damages generated by the global financial crisis that burst in 2007-2008. Almost a decade after this crisis, policy is still unable to provide all citizens greater...