Once again the United States economy is facing a crisis, resolution of which first requires the realization that there are many types of capitalism: Solutions implemented in the past, therefore, may or may not be an appropriate solution today, as they could have been implemented as an answer to...

Contribution to a series of recollections and reflections on professional experiences of distinguished economists. Originally published in the BNL Quarterly review,vol. 38 n. 154, September 1985 pp.211-221.

This brief proposes that the establishment of a nationwide system of community development banks (CDBs) would advance the capital development of the economy. The proposal is based on the notion that a critical function of the financial system is not being adequately performed by existing...

"At the annual banking structure and competition conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in May 1987, the buzzword heard in the corridors and used by many of the speakers was 'that which can be securitized, will be securitized.'" So notes Hyman Minsky in a prescient memo on the nature,...

In this paper, which marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Employment Act of 1946, Distinguished Scholar Hyman P. Minsky and Visiting Scholar Charles J. Whalen search for reasons to account for the difference between economic performance in the period from 1946 to 1966 and performance from 1966...

Schumpeter asserted that there were two types of business cycle theories: one in which cycles reflected dampened economic behavior and another in which cycles reflect explosive economic behavior. Both of these theories allowed that cycles could be either monotonic or oscillating. In this working...

The paper is a to date unpublished contribution by Minsky prepared for a conference at the University of Perugia held in 1986. It contains Minsky's assessment of Kalecki's contribution. According to Minsky, the question of Kalecki's priority over Keynes with respect to the construction of...