Kurt W. Rothschild, an Austrian economist known for his multiparadigmatic and interdisciplinary approach, made significant contributions to Keynesian and post-Keynesian economic theory. Born in 1914 in Vienna, his work encompassed price theory, labor market economics, growth and distribution,...

The revival of economic nationalism poses a challenge to neoclassical orthodoxy, which claims that liberalized international trade is (subject to a few recognized exceptions) inherently cooperative and mutually beneficial. Post-Keynesian open economy models demonstrate that international trade...

Post-Keynesian conflict inflation models have received renewed attention in the course of the recent inflationary processes related to the recovery from the Covid-19 crisis in 2020 and the hike of energy prices in the context of the start of the Russian war on Ukraine in 2022. Although the basic...

We analyse UK markups and profit margins for the pandemic period and its aftermath using unconsolidated balance sheets of non-financial corporations for both listed and unlisted firms. The markup increases by 14.7% between 2014 and 2022, exceeding any previously documented growth rate for UK...

This paper aims to develop an ecological macroeconomic model for the Danish economy that can link the economic and financial system with some key aspects of the climate. To do so, we combine Stock-flow-Consistent approach (SFC) with Input-Output tables (IO) to build a hybrid model, which we call...

This paper investigates the role of family firms in the fall of the labor share and rise in corporate saving in Germany from 1993 to 2019. Combining a new Family Ownership and Governance (FOG) database with financial data, we analyze 929 publicly listed firms. Our findings show that firm-level...

This paper maps the intellectual and institutional landscape of post-Keynesian economics in Germany since the 1970s. It reviews the contributions of academics based in Germany, irrespective of their nationality, to post-Keynesian economics viewed from a broad tent perspective and to the...

This paper presents a theory and model of long-run cycles in income inequality. The model explains the historical pattern of income distribution identified by Kuznets (1955) and Piketty (2014). It breaks with conventional marginal product theory which claims functional income distribution is...

Paul Davidson was a critical figure in the preservation of John Maynard Keynes's ideas, sticking with them when they were out of fashion. He was also key to the survival of the Post Keynesian school. Davidson endorsed Keynes's liquidity preference theory of interest, and he emphasized...

Public opinion and the perceptions of poorer households consistently indicate that the poor are most exposed to inflation. Meanwhile, the empirical literature on income-dependent inflation inequality remains ambiguous. In this paper, we explore two different explanations for this...