The purpose of this article is to provide a post-keynesian analytical framework for evaluating the impact of minimum wages on employment. After describing briefly the post-keynesian macroeconomic theory of the labour market, emphasis is then placed on the critical second-round productivity...

According to the New Consensus in monetary economics, monetarism is dead and central bankers target low inflation rates by acting upon short-term real rates of interest. Yet, this synthesis hinges on variants of the long-run vertical Phillips curve originally proposed by Milton Friedman, the...

The history of the Bank of Canada and the U.S. Federal Reserve System is intertwined not only because of geographical proximity but because of the reciprocal influence on the way they have evolved their structures to conduct monetary policy. While both find their origins in financial crises, the...