Macroeconomics -- Macroeconomic thought during the long nineteenth century -- Gold standard, reparations, mania, crash, and depression -- Maynard ascendant -- Keynesian growth, cycles, and crisis -- The counter-revolution -- Finance -- The international dimension -- Keynesianism and the crisis

Overview of Minsky's main contributions -- Where did we go wrong? Macroeconomics and the road not taken -- Minsky's early contributions : the financial instability hypothesis -- Minsky's views on money and banking -- Minsky's approach to poverty and unemployment -- Minsky and the global...

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...