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Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes

by Mark Skousen  · 22 Dec 2006  · 330pp  · 77,729 words

a fundamental metamorphosis, emerging ever more convincing and ever more resilient" (Shaw 1988, 5). The remaining Keynesian precepts achieved a certain kind of "permanent revolution." Post-Keynesian Economics Today What's left of modern Keynesian theory? Was Keynesianism a "permanent" revolution, as G.K. Shaw says, or an unfortunate interlude, as Leland Yeager

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber  · 1 Jan 2010  · 725pp  · 221,514 words

price stability. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham. _____. 1999. “An Irreverent Overview of the History of Money from the Beginning of the Beginning to the Present.” Journal of Post Keynesian Economics. 21 (4): 679-687 _____. 2000. Credit and State Theories of Money. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Wright, David P. 2009. Inventing God’s Law: How the Covenant

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

by Mark Blyth  · 24 Apr 2013  · 576pp  · 105,655 words

, 2012, http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/the-structural-obsession/. 73. Steven Schulman, “The Natural Rate of Unemployment: Concept and Critique,” Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics 11, 4 (Summer 1989): 509–521. 74. Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (New York: Simon and Schuster

The Great Economists Ten Economists whose thinking changed the way we live-FT Publishing International (2014)

by Phil Thornton  · 7 May 2014

rather than the hours worked, money is a tool for 2. J.E. Elliott, ‘Marx’s Grundrisse: Vision of Capitalism’s Creative Destruction’, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 1(2) (Winter 1978–79), pp. 148–69. Chapter 3 • Karl Marx61 exchange value, and the resulting increase in free time allows each

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller  · 1 Jan 2009  · 471pp  · 97,152 words

: Clarendon Press. Modigliani, Franco, and Richard Brumberg. 1954. “Utility Analysis and the Consumption Function: An Interpretation of Cross-Section Data.” In Kenneth K. Kurihara, ed., Post-Keynesian Economics. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, pp. 388–436. Modigliani, Franco, and Richard A. Cohn. 1979. “Inflation, Rational Valuation and the Market.” Financial Analysts

The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Banks

by Ann Pettifor  · 27 Mar 2017  · 182pp  · 53,802 words

the ‘underworld’ lived on only through Keynes’s closest colleagues in Cambridge, who were subsequently cast out of the profession. His theory was revived as post-Keynesian economics in the US under Sidney Weintraub, Hyman Minsky and Paul Davidson, and in the UK by Victoria Chick, among others. Geoffrey Ingham in the UK

Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom

by Doug Henwood  · 30 Aug 1998  · 586pp  · 159,901 words

, regulating the system politically without materially politicizing it. The establishment took what it needed from Keynes and left the rest. posties Though I've mentioned post-Keynesian economics several times in this chapter, I've barely fleshed out the mentions. But two matters deserve closer attention — theories of monetary endogeneity, and the work

Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One

by Meghnad Desai  · 15 Feb 2015  · 270pp  · 73,485 words

during the 1960s and 1970s, with large swathes of economists arguing that the IS-LM approach distorted the original message of Keynes’s General Theory. Post-Keynesian economics was born in the 1960s, hoping to restore the true message of Keynes, but it remains a minority cult. The Policy Legacy of Keynes Yet

Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell  · 1 Jan 2000  · 850pp  · 254,117 words

, in what was called the “Phillips Curve,” in honor of economist A.W. Phillips of the London School of Economics, who had developed this analysis. Post-Keynesian Economics The Phillips Curve was perhaps the high-water mark of Keynesian economics. However, the Chicago School began chipping away at the Keynesian theories in general

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

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

whatever quantity of credit money firms wanted, at the prevailing interest rate. This model, known as ‘Horizontalism’ (Moore 1988b), led to a lengthy dispute within post-Keynesian economics over whether the money supply curve was horizontal, or sloped upwards (Dow 1997). This dispute put the empirically accurate findings of post-Keynesian researchers into

economics, the main alternatives are: • Austrian economics, which shares many of the features of neoclassical economics, save a slavish devotion to the concept of equilibrium. • Post-Keynesian economics, which is highly critical of neoclassical economics, emphasizes the fundamental importance of uncertainty, and bases itself upon the theories of Keynes and Kalecki. • Sraffian economics

‘far from equilibrium’ behavior, which undermines the validity of beliefs about capitalism and welfare that depend on the economy not straying too far from equilibrium. Post-Keynesian economics This school of thought developed in reaction to the ‘bastardization’ of Keynes’s economics in the so-called Keynesian–neoclassical synthesis. Regarding themselves as the

economy which neoclassical economics regards as an adequate proxy for the real world. As Arestis et al. (1999) put it, the main unifying themes in post-Keynesian economics are ‘a concern for history, uncertainty, distributional issues, and the importance of political and economic institutions in determining the level of activity in an economy

Though the Sraffian school was fairly influential up until 2000, there have been few developments in it since, certainly in comparison to the growth in post-Keynesian economics since that date. Complexity theory and Econophysics Complexity theory is not so much a school of thought in economics as a group of economists who

‘Second Edition’ of the General Theory, London, Routledge, pp. 61–78. Downward, P. (1999) Pricing Theory in Post Keynesian Economics: A realist approach, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Downward, P. and P. Reynolds (1999) ‘The contemporary relevance of Post-Keynesian economics: editors’ introduction,’ Economic Issues, 4: 1–6. Dumenil, G. and D. Levy (1985) ‘The classicals and the

, K. (1979) ‘A note on capital and output aggregation in a general equilibrium model of production,’ Econometrica, 47: 1559–68. Sawyer, M. C. (ed.) (1988) Post-Keynesian Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar. Say, J. B. (1967 [1821]) Letters to Mr Malthus on several subjects of political economy and on the cause of the stagnation

The Social Life of Money

by Nigel Dodd  · 14 May 2014  · 700pp  · 201,953 words

Investment: A History

by Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing  · 19 Feb 2016

Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation

by Grace Blakeley  · 9 Sep 2019  · 263pp  · 80,594 words

The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau  · 3 Aug 2016  · 586pp  · 160,321 words

Global Governance and Financial Crises

by Meghnad Desai and Yahia Said  · 12 Nov 2003

Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown

by Philip Mirowski  · 24 Jun 2013  · 662pp  · 180,546 words

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

by Peter L. Bernstein  · 23 Aug 1996  · 415pp  · 125,089 words

Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

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

Value of Everything: An Antidote to Chaos The

by Mariana Mazzucato  · 25 Apr 2018  · 457pp  · 125,329 words

The Classical School

by Callum Williams  · 19 May 2020  · 288pp  · 89,781 words

Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All

by Costas Lapavitsas  · 14 Aug 2013  · 554pp  · 158,687 words

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

by Mariana Mazzucato  · 1 Jan 2011  · 382pp  · 92,138 words

Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

by Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato  · 31 Jul 2016  · 370pp  · 102,823 words

Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI

by John Cassidy  · 12 May 2025  · 774pp  · 238,244 words

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

by Adam Tooze  · 31 Jul 2018  · 1,066pp  · 273,703 words

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

by Stephanie Kelton  · 8 Jun 2020  · 338pp  · 104,684 words

Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow

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

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

by Richard H. Thaler  · 10 May 2015  · 500pp  · 145,005 words

Automation and the Future of Work

by Aaron Benanav  · 3 Nov 2020  · 175pp  · 45,815 words

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

by Christopher Lasch  · 16 Sep 1991  · 669pp  · 226,737 words

The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics

by John B. Judis  · 11 Sep 2016  · 177pp  · 50,167 words

Where Does Money Come From?: A Guide to the UK Monetary & Banking System

by Josh Ryan-Collins, Tony Greenham, Richard Werner and Andrew Jackson  · 14 Apr 2012

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

by Frank Trentmann  · 1 Dec 2015  · 1,213pp  · 376,284 words

The Rise of the Network Society

by Manuel Castells  · 31 Aug 1996  · 843pp  · 223,858 words

Barometer of Fear: An Insider's Account of Rogue Trading and the Greatest Banking Scandal in History

by Alexis Stenfors  · 14 May 2017  · 312pp  · 93,836 words

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

by David Graeber  · 14 May 2018  · 385pp  · 123,168 words

Modernising Money: Why Our Monetary System Is Broken and How It Can Be Fixed

by Andrew Jackson (economist) and Ben Dyson (economist)  · 15 Nov 2012  · 363pp  · 107,817 words

Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght  · 20 Mar 2017

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

by Robert W. McChesney  · 5 Mar 2013  · 476pp  · 125,219 words

Sabotage: The Financial System's Nasty Business

by Anastasia Nesvetailova and Ronen Palan  · 28 Jan 2020  · 218pp  · 62,889 words

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel  · 12 Aug 2020  · 286pp  · 87,168 words

Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess

by Robert H. Frank  · 15 Jan 1999  · 416pp  · 112,159 words

Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism

by Robin Chase  · 14 May 2015  · 330pp  · 91,805 words

After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back

by Juliet Schor, William Attwood-Charles and Mehmet Cansoy  · 15 Mar 2020  · 296pp  · 83,254 words

Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb  · 27 Nov 2012  · 651pp  · 180,162 words

Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization

by Vaclav Smil  · 16 Dec 2013  · 396pp  · 117,897 words

The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East

by Andrew Scott Cooper  · 8 Aug 2011