The aim of this paper is to describe by means of a simple Lotka-Volterra model the financial vulnerability of corporate sector. This should allow us to soften Lavoie's criticism of Minsky's «Financial Instability Hypothesis» which is based on the so-called «paradox of debt».

In this paper, I try to show and emphasise how China has adopted alternative economic policies in the transition and in the evolution of its financial system. In fact, the step by step or gradualism approach followed is in contrast to the fashionable idea that indiscriminately prescribes...

This important volume brings together 22 major essays written by A.P. Thirlwall over the last 30 years in the field of macroeconomics, and in particular on multiplier analysis, unemployment, inflation, growth and the balance of payments.

Central bankers fear deflation but this is incomprehensible within the standard AS/AD framework based on a real wealth effect. This framework is amended by introducing debt effects that reduce aggregate demand when prices fall, as emphasised long ago by Keynes, Kalecki and Fisher, thus showing...