The paper aims at showing that one of the main channels by which the US 2007 financial crisis became a real and global economic crisis is the 'confidence channel', i.e. that the financial crisis affected firms, banks and households’ expectations and confidence, thus leading to what they...

Pedagogical pluralism is difficult to implement in practice. This paper contrasts two approaches to the modelling of money in macroeconomics: the stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model of Godley and Lavoie and the mainstream neoclassical dynamic general equilibrium model of Barro. Students...