Overview: Financialization as financial neoliberalism -- Financialization: what it is and why it matters -- The macroeconomics of financialization: stages of development approach -- The simple analytics of debt-driven business cycles -- Deflation and inflation dynamics with debt -- Herd...

This timely book rethinks economic theory and policy by addressing the problem of economic instability and the need to secure broadly shared prosperity. It stresses that advancing economics in the wake of the Great Recession requires an evolutionary standpoint, greater attention to uncertainty...

This paper presents a general equilibrium model with technological uncertainty, financial markets and imperfect information. The future consists of uncertain environments that are more or less clearly distinguishable (measurable). This limits the possibilities of specialization and...