This paper presents an overview of different models which explain financial crises, with the aim of understanding economic developments during and possibly after the Great Recession. In the first part approaches based on efficient markets and rational expectations hypotheses are analyzed, which...

Most mainstream neoclassical economists completely failed to anticipate the crisis which broke in 2007 and 2008. There is however a long tradition of economic analysis which emphasises how growth in a capitalist economy leads to an accumulation of tensions and results in periodic crises. This...

This paper contends that Marx develops in Volume III of Capital an incisive conceptual framework in which excessive credit creation, indebtedness and speculation play a critical and growing role in the reproduction of social capital on an extended basis; however, given the decentralised and...

This article analyzes the role of the asymmetry hypothesis in Marx’s reproduction schemes. We assume a propensity of capitalists for endogenous and uniform saving, and study its effect on the result found by Marx. Afterward, the dynamic relationship between the organic composition of capital...

The paper is on one of the best Macroeconomics teachers and a finest Marxists of our time, who is none other than Professor Patnaik. The reading is neither decisive nor trivial to understand the contribution of a behemoth personality, nonetheless, presents a humble perception of some of his work...

This paper argues that, in Chapters XXIX and XXX of Volume III of Capital, Marx develops an incisive conceptual framework in which excessive credit creation, indebtedness, and speculation play a critical and growing role in the reproduction of social capital on an extended basis; however, given...