This paper compares Marx's economics with those by Sraffa, Keynes, Kalecki and Minsky. The paper takes an "ex post" view on the matter and rather looks at the output side of the respective authors, but not at the input side. This means no attempt is made at studying in a systematic way, if and...

Right-wing critics of Keynes have often suggested that he was a socialist. His policy proposals were very often described as a slippery slope that would lead society into a totalitarian nightmare. Alternatively, from the left, Keynes was often seen as a reformist that intended to preserve the...

Progressive macro-economics is defined as theorizing organized capitalism with the aim of providing a theoretical foundation for macro-ecnomic policy, introducing economic reforms paving the way for the transition towards Socialism. The basis of Progressive Macro-economics is the labour theory...

F. Modigliani presented a special case of Keynes's General Theory result in 1944 in his “Liquidity Preference and the Theory of Interest and Money”. Modigliani sought to provide the IS-LM model of Hicks's 1937 Econometrica interpretation of Keynes's chapter 15 IS-LM model with microeconomic...

J M Keynes engaged in correspondence over the IS-LM model contained in chapter 15 of the General Theory with R. Harrod and J Hicks in 1937. Keynes had no major objections. How could he? How could Keynes object to interpretations concerning his own model of IS LM in the General Theory, as laid...