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...

In this paper we present a theory of the financing of investment in a modern capitalist economy, following the approach developed by Hyman P. Minsky. We argue that the current financial crisis that began with the collapse of the subprime mortgage market in the United States in 2007 provides a...

In this paper, I first quickly recount the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis (GFC). Of course, the triggering event was the unfolding of the subprime crisis; however, I argue that the financial system was already so fragile that just about anything could have caused the...