Financial Instability Hypothesis Concepts

Money Free and Unfree

by George A. Selgin · 14 Jun 2017 · 454pp · 134,482 words

authority to create money, i.e., provide unlimited liquidity on demand” (emphasis added). 2. Minsky (1982: 16) even tries to rule potential criticisms of his “financial-instability hypothesis” out-of-court by declaring that “No theory of the behavior of a capitalist economy has merit if it explains instability as the result either

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.” In E. I. Altman and A. W. Sametz (eds.), Financial Crises: Institutions and Markets in a Fragile Environment. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ——— (1982) “The Financial-Instability Hypothesis: Capitalist Processes and the Behavior of the Economy.” In C. P. Kindleberger and J. P. Laffargue (eds.), Financial Crises: Theory, History, and Policy, 13–39

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm · 10 May 2010 · 491pp · 131,769 words

would prompt financial players to curtail lending, reduce risk and exposure, and hoard capital. In itself, this view was not entirely revolutionary. But Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis had another dimension. He categorized the debtors in a given economy into three groups, according to the nature of the financing they used: hedge borrowers

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of this veil . . .”: John Maynard Keynes, Essays in Persuasion (New York: W.W. Norton, 1963), 169. 51 Financial Instability Hypothesis: Hyman Minsky, “The Financial Instability Hypothesis: An Interpretation of Keynes and an Alternative to ‘Standard’ Theory,” and “The Financial Instability Hypothesis: A Restatement,” both in Minsky, Can “It” Happen Again? Essays on Instability and Finance (Armonk, N.Y.: M

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origins of see also Great Recession Financial Industry Regulatory Authority financial innovation failure of government to keep pace with Greenspan’s views on regulation and Financial Instability Hypothesis financial institutions, debt of financial markets Financial Services Authority (FSA) Financial Services Modernization Act (1999) Financial Services Oversight Council Financial Stability Board Financial Times Finland

Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics

by Robert Skidelsky · 13 Nov 2018

claim credit for having foreseen a crisis, for various reasons. The general cause of the financial collapse had been previsioned by Hyman Minsky in his ‘financial instability hypothesis’: see Minsky (1992). 3. Quoted in Kynaston (2017), p. 358. Montagu Norman to Henry Clay. 4. The original is a bit more verbose than the

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Origins and Development of Economic Theory. Gainesville, Fla.: University Presses of Florida. Ministry of Reconstruction (1944), Employment Policy (Cmd. 6527). London: HMSO. Minsky, H. (1992), Financial Instability Hypothesis. Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Working Paper No. 74. Minsky, H. (2008 (1986)), Stabilizing an Unstable Economy. New York: McGraw-Hill Education. Mirowski, P

Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow

by Tim Jackson · 8 Dec 2016 · 573pp · 115,489 words

. Keen, Steve 2011. Debunking Economics, revised and expanded edition. London and New York: Zed Books. Keen, Steve 1995. ‘Finance and economic breakdown: modelling Minsky’s “financial instability hypothesis”’. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 17(4): 607–635. Keynes, John Maynard 1978. Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, vol. 17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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policy implications’. Hyman P. Minsky Archive (Paper 88). Online at http://digitalcommons.bard.edu/hm_archive/88 (accessed 18 July 2016). Minsky, Hyman 1992. ‘The Financial Instability Hypothesis’. Working Paper no. 74. Annandale-on-Hudson: Levy Economics Institute. Online at www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp74.pdf (accessed 15 March 2016). Minsky, Hyman 1986

Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

by Steve Keen · 21 Sep 2011 · 823pp · 220,581 words

of the DotCom Bubble would mark the beginning of the crisis – though I was cautious in saying so, because my work in modeling Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis (Keen 1995) had confirmed one aspect of his theory, the capacity of government spending to prevent a debt crisis that would have occurred in a

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from the first edition on the likelihood of a crisis as seen from the vantage point of non-neoclassical economics – and in particular, Minsky’s ‘Financial Instability Hypothesis’ – in 2000 and early 2001. I hope these pre-crisis observations persuade you to reject the ‘Nobody could have seen this coming’ smokescreen. Rather than

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Reserve. Part 3, ‘Alternatives,’ considers alternative approaches to economics. It has six chapters: Chapter 13 (‘Why I did see “It” coming’) outlines Hyman Minsky’s ‘Financial Instability Hypothesis,’ and my nonlinear and monetary models of it, which were the reason I anticipated this crisis, and why I went public with my warnings in

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. Addendum: the war over perfect competition As noted, my plan to start work on Finance and Economic Breakdown (a book-length treatment of Minsky’s ‘Financial Instability Hypothesis’) when I finished Debunking Economics was derailed for the next four years as I found myself embroiled in disputes with neoclassical economists – via email, in

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) However, from this point on, his neoclassical priors excluded both salient data and rival intellectual perspectives on the data. His treatment of Hyman Minsky’s ‘Financial Instability Hypothesis’ – which is outlined in Chapter 13 – is particularly reprehensible. In the entire volume, there is a single, utterly dismissive reference to Minsky: Hyman Minsky (1977

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my opinion, Minsky’s worst book – and I’m speaking as someone in a position to know. Anyone wanting to get a handle on the Financial Instability Hypothesis from Minsky himself would be far better advised to read the essays in Can ‘It’ Happen Again? (Minsky 1982 [1963]), or his original book John

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their models of the economy, and many economists in these schools expected a crisis – the former group because of their familiarity with Hyman Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis, and the latter because of their familiarity with Hayek’s argument about the impact of interest rates being held too low by government policy. However

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explained capitalism’s greatest weakness: its proclivity to experience not merely economic cycles, but also occasional depressions that challenged the viability of capitalism itself. The Financial Instability Hypothesis Minsky’s starting point was that, since the Great Depression had occurred, and since similar if smaller crises were a recurrent feature of the nineteenth

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merely a recession, but a depression. This Minskian process has been playing out in America ever since the mid-1960s when Minsky first developed his Financial Instability Hypothesis. Minsky himself identified 1966 as the time at which America made the transition from a productive to a Ponzi economy: ‘A close examination of experience

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analysis that Keynes provided in 1936. Two such analyses have been provided: by Robert Haugen in the ‘Inefficient Markets Hypothesis,’ and Hyman Minsky in the ‘Financial Instability Hypothesis,’ as discussed in Chapter 13. The Inefficient Markets Hypothesis After a long career as an academic finance economist, Bob Haugen presents the diametrically opposite case

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Bill White, the research director at the Bank of International Settlements, was a notable exception here since he was a proponent of the non-neoclassical ‘Financial Instability Hypothesis.’ 3 The rate of interest the Federal Reserve charges when it loans to a commercial bank. 4 See media.ft.com/cms/3e3b6ca8-7a08-11de

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epiphany that resulted in him renouncing neoclassical thinking, and making a major contribution to the alternative approach to economics that Minsky later developed into the Financial Instability Hypothesis. Chapter 12 1 Bernanke went on to rephrase debt deflation using several concepts from neoclassical microeconomics – including information asymmetry, the impairment of banks’ role as

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/keen-roubini-and-baker-win-revere-award-for-economics-2/ for full details. 2 From Steve Keen (1995), ‘Finance and economic breakdown: modeling Minsky’s “Financial Instability Hypothesis”’, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 17(4): 607–35. Copyright © 1995 by M. E. Sharpe, Inc. Used by permission. 3 Minsky made it into the

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Marx’s theory of value,’ Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 15: 282–300. Keen, S. (1995) ‘Finance and economic breakdown: modeling Minsky’s “Financial Instability Hypothesis,”’ Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 17(4): 607–35. Keen, S. (1996) ‘The chaos of finance: the chaotic and Marxian foundations of Minsky’s

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“Financial Instability Hypothesis,”’ Economies et Sociétés, 30(2/3): 55–82. Keen, S. (1998) ‘Answers (and questions) for Sraffians (and Kaleckians),’ Review of Political Economy, 10: 73–87.

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social risk: discussion,’ American Economic Review, 61(2): 389–90. Minsky, H. (1975) John Maynard Keynes, New York: Columbia University Press. Minsky, H. (1977) ‘The financial instability hypothesis: an interpretation of Keynes and an alternative to “standard” theory,’ Nebraska Journal of Economics and Business, reprinted in H. Minsky (1982 [1963]), Can ‘It’ Happen

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Reserve Board; mismanagement of money supply feudalism finance sector; reform of financial assets: analysis of; pricing of Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Financial Crisis Observatory Financial Instability Hypothesis see Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis firm, theory of (neoclassical) Fisher, Irving; bankruptcy of; debt deflation paper; The Theory of Interest flat world analogy Fokker-Planck model fractal geometry

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zeros inflation; causes of; relation to unemployment inflationary universe, theory of innovation instability; of capitalism; of systems see also equilibrium, instability of and Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) instrumentalism interest; medieval prohibition of; rates of (ceiling for; legal; setting of) interests, sum of international trade, theory of

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, Carl meteorology, modelling of methodology of macroeconomics microeconomics Minsky, Hyman; Can ‘It’ Happen Again?; John Maynard Keynes; modeling of; Stabilizing an Unstable Economy Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis Mirowski, P. Mises, Ludwig von Mississippi Land Scheme Mitchell, Bill monetarism Monetary Circuit monetary model of capitalism monetary policy money; as non-commodity; base money

Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane · 28 Feb 2017 · 346pp · 90,371 words

the other factors. Thanks to Professor John Muellbauer for making available the data. 12 See Minsky (1992) for a short and accessible summary of his ‘financial instability hypothesis’ and Minsky (1986) for a comprehensive account. 13 In 2014 the FPC put a limit on the proportion of mortgages a bank can issue at

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. Narrow Banking: The Reform of Banking Regulation. Tonbridge: Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation. Keen, Steve. 1995. ‘Finance and Economic Breakdown: Modeling Minsky’s “Financial Instability Hypothesis”’. Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 17 (4): 607–35. Keen, Steve. 2011. Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned? 2nd ed. London: Zed Books. Keen, Steve

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, and S. Wright. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Minsky, Hyman. 1986. Stabilizing and Unstable Economy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Minsky, Hyman P. 1992. ‘The Financial Instability Hypothesis’. The Jerome Levy Economics Institute Working Paper no. 74, May. Mirrlees, James, and Stuart Adam. 2011. Tax by Design: The Mirrlees Review. Vol. 2. Oxford

Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power

by Michel Aglietta · 23 Oct 2018 · 665pp · 146,542 words

, New York: New York University Press, 1976. 6 Barry Eichengreen, The Gold Standard in Theory and History, London: Routledge, 1985. 7 Hyman P. Minsky, ‘The financial instability hypothesis, capitalist processes and the behavior of the economy’, in Charles P. Kindleberger and Jean-Pierre Laffargue (eds), Financial Crises, Theory, History and Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge

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Égyptiens de l’époque Pharaonique’, in Alain Testard (ed.), Aux origines de la monnaie, Paris: Éditions Errance, pp. 73–108. Minsky, Hyman P. (1982), ‘The financial instability hypothesis, capitalist processes and the behavior of the economy’, in Charles P. Kindleberger and Jean-Pierre Laffargue (eds), Financial Crises, Theory, History and Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth · 22 Mar 2017 · 403pp · 111,119 words

the same time, Eugene Fama’s efficient-market hypothesis – that financial markets are inherently efficient – lost credibility and has been countered by Hyman Minsky’s financial-instability hypothesis – that financial markets are inherently volatile – as we will see in Chapter 4. Lastly, far from playing a supporting role to the productive economy, finance

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, when the boom went very bust, many started to search for insights in the long-ignored work of the economist Hyman Minsky, especially his 1975 financial-instability hypothesis, which put dynamic analysis at the heart of macroeconomics. Minsky had realised that – counter-intuitive though it sounds – when it comes to finance, stability breeds

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the meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, Washington, DC, 20 February 2004. http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/20040220/ 28. Minsky, H. (1977) ‘The Financial Instability Hypothesis: an interpretation of Keynes and an alternative to Standard Theory’, Challenge, March–April 1977, pp. 20–27. 29. Haldane, A. (2009) ‘Rethinking the Financial Network

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) Principles of Political Economy, http://www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlP.html Mill, J. S. (1873) Autobiography, 1989 edn. London: Penguin. Minsky, H. (1977) ‘The Financial Instability Hypothesis: an interpretation of Keynes and an alternative to Standard Theory’, Challenge, March–April 1977, pp. 20–27. Mishel, L. and Shierholz, H. (2013) A Decade

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–101, 149 and distribution, 169, 170, 173, 182–4, 198–9, 201 and efficient market hypothesis, 63, 68 and Embedded Economy, 71, 86–8 and financial-instability hypothesis, 87, 146 and GDP growth, 38 and media, 7–8 mobile banking, 199–200 and money creation, 87, 182–5 and regeneration, 227, 229, 234

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, 239 financial crisis (2008), 1–4, 5, 40, 63, 86, 141, 144, 278, 290 and efficient market hypothesis, 87 and equilibrium theory, 134, 145 and financial-instability hypothesis, 87 and inequality, 90, 170, 172, 175 and money creation, 182 and worker’s rights, 278 financial flows, 89 Financial Times, 183, 266, 289

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financial-instability hypothesis, 87, 146 First Green Bank, 236 First World War (1914–18), 166, 170 Fisher, Irving, 183 fluid values, 102, 106–9 food, 3, 43, 45,

What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems

by Linda Yueh · 4 Jun 2018 · 453pp · 117,893 words

in macroeconomic models, would lead to a financial crisis. He warned against speculative bubbles arising in inflated asset prices which had economy-wide implications. The financial instability hypothesis developed by Minsky describes how credit bubbles form,19 while Fisher’s debt-deflation described how they collapse and drag the economy into recession and

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-chair to Ben Bernanke during the 2009 recession, gave a speech entitled: ‘A Minsky Meltdown: Lessons for Central Bankers’. She pointed out: ‘As Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis suggests, when optimism is high and ample funds are available for investment, investors tend to migrate … to the risky speculative and Ponzi end.’ She added

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It seems that interest in both Fisher and Minsky has been revived by the recent global financial crisis. However, the debt-deflation stage of the financial instability hypothesis so far remains a threat rather than a reality. The global financial crisis Just as the Great Recession offers parallels to the Great Depression, debt

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Stimson, 1991, Ricardian Politics, Princeton: Princeton University Press Mill, John Stuart, 1848, Principles of Political Economy, London: John W. Parker Minsky, Hyman P., 1992, ‘The Financial Instability Hypothesis’, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Working Paper No. 74 Mitchell, Brian R., 1988, Abstract of British Historical Statistics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Ben S. Bernanke before the National Economists Club, Washington, DC, 21 November; www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2002/20021121/ 19. Hyman P. Minsky, 1992, ‘The Financial Instability Hypothesis’, The Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Working Paper No. 74. 20. Ibid. 21. ‘Minsky’s Moment’, The Economist, 30 July 2016; www.economist

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Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis

by Anatole Kaletsky · 22 Jun 2010 · 484pp · 136,735 words

attention not only in the media but also in central banks and finance ministries around the world. A key feature of what Minsky called his Financial Instability Hypothesis was that economic stability would encourage banks to innovate. When economic conditions prove surprisingly benign, banks start accepting low-quality assets as collateral and find

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2007-09 credit crunch was a Minsky Moment writ large. George Soros’s Theory of Reflexivity can be seen as a generalization of Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis and Keynes’s theory of animal spirits. Soros puts both on a different philosophical basis by emphasising the two-way interaction between people’s perceptions

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/effects market fundamentalism new classical school on political ideology political mismanagement standard view/flaws See also Lehman Brothers collapse; Paulson, Henry/financial crisis (2007-09) Financial Instability Hypothesis (boom-bust cycle theory) Fitoussi, Paul Fooled by Randomness (Taleb) Fool’s Gold (Tett) Ford, Henry Frank, Barney Free to Choose (Friedman) Friedman, Milton Capitalism