This paper establishes connections between the frameworks of social provisioning and functional finance, and discusses a post-Keynesian – Institutionalist theory of the public sector that emerges out of these linkages. The concept of social provisioning has emerged out of Institutional...

The paper uses Minsky's financial instability hypothesis as an analytical framework for understanding the subprime mortgage crisis and for introducing adequate reforms to restore economic stability. We argue that the subprime crisis has structural origins that extend far beyond the housing and...

The purpose of this paper is to connect Minsky's (1986) financial instability hypothesis which reveals the inherent endogenous destabilizing forces of monetary production to a social provisioning approach outlined by feminist economists (Jullie Nelson 1993; Hutchinson et al 2002; Power 2004). The paper...

The article discusses commitment to full employment in light of institutional theory and offers a renewed examination of Keynes’s "socialization of investment" concept. The discussion builds on Veblen's theory of human development, predation, and capitalism. It highlights contemporary...

The article discusses consumption as a social process that is a part of social provisioning and is in an evolutionary interplay with other social processes. The discussion is grounded in, but is not limited to the contributions of Thorstein Veblen. The first section delineates social...

This is an early attempt to work towards a Feminist Post Keynesian approach to economics (2005). The paper refers to previous literature in this direction, and offers additional theoretical explorations for Post Keynesians, Feminist economists, and institutionalists. The paper discusses money,...