The crisis that burst in 2007 has revealed a number of conceptual and methodological flaws of neoclassical economic analysis, based on rational behaviour, representative agents, and microfounded macroeconomics, where money and banking are considered as pertaining to the microeconomics of goods...

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The article analyses the role of international supply chains as transmission channels of a financial shock. Because individual firms are interdependent and rely on each other, either as supplier or client, a financial shock affecting a single firm, such as the termination of a line of credit,...

The significant increase since the early 1980s in the share of income accruing to capital (rather than labor), in both the United States and the European Union, created the potential for economic stagnation. Stagnation was postponed, however, by the development of the banking sector in these...

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of emulation within a basic schema of the monetary theory of production (MTP). A theoretical model is presented, where workers set their target level of consumption based on the comparison with other workers taken as reference. It is shown that...