A collection of papers from leading thinkers to celebrate the work of the late Wynne Godley, and his enormous contribution to the field of monetary economics. Chapters include in-depth discussions of the revolutionary economic modelling systems that Godley introduced, as well as his prescient...

1. Introduction : Minsky on money, banking and finance / Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray -- 2. What would Minsky have thought of the mortgage crisis? / Jan Kregel -- 3. Minsky and economic policy : "Keynesianism" all over again? / Éric Tymoigne -- 4. Minsky in the "new" capitalism...

This book examines the aging of the US population as a primary domestic public policy issue. An increase in the proportion of the elderly in the total population will potentially result in a significant growth in the number of beneficiaries in major federal entitlement programs, leading to...

This book focuses on the distributional consequences of the public sector and examines and documents, theoretically and empirically, the effects of government spending and taxation on personal distribution, and includes chapters investigating the relationship between the public sector and...