Recent economic and financial crises have exposed mainstream economics to severe criticism, bringing present research and teaching styles into question. Building on a solid and vivid tradition of economic thought, this book challenges conventional thinking in the field of economics. The authors...

This paper examines Jacob Viner's contribution to the debate and the policy decision-making concerning international monetary policy from the Great Depression to the Bretton Woods agreements. An outstanding member of the so-called 'early Chicago School of Political Economy', Viner was actively...

"In 2005 Luigi Pasinetti was asked by his friend and colleague Pier Paolo Varri1 how he would like his 75th birthday to be celebrated. Pasinetti immediately replied: "let us discuss my new book!". The book was of course Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians, which was almost finished at that time....