The Financial Crisis of 2008, and the Great Recession in its wake, have shaken up macroeconomics. The paradigm of the "New" Neoclassical Synthesis, which seemed to provide a robust framework of analysis for short-run macro not long ago, fails to capture key elements of the recent crisis. This...

The Keynesian analysis of financial instability as developed by Hyman Minsky provides considerable insights into understanding the nature and dynamics of boom-bust cycles driven by international capital flows in emerging markets. Its main policy conclusion that financial control rather than...

We consider a Keynes-Goodwin model of effective demand and the distributive cycle where workers purchase goods and houses with marginal propensity significantly larger than one. They therefore need credit, supplied from asset holders, and have to pay interest on their outstanding debt. In this...

Spätestens seit der Finanzkrise im Jahr 2008 ist es ins Bewusstsein der Menschen in den Industrieländern gedrungen: Der Kapitalismus ist gescheitert. Allerdings: Krisen haben den Kapitalismus stets begleitet: Große Börsencrashs, Verelendung von großen Bevölkerungsteilen in der Dritten...