This book extends the KMG framework (Keynes, Meltzer, Goodwin) and focuses on financial issues. It integrates Tobin's macroeconomic portfolio approach and emphasizes the issue of stock-flow consistency

In the last months, the world's economies were confronted with the largest economic recession since the Great Depression. The occurrence of a worldwide financial market meltdown as a consequence originally stemming from of the crisis in the US subprime housing sector was only prevented by...

We present a simple macrodynamic model of the real-financial markets inter action with a dynamic multiplier representing the goods market and a structured portfolio choice between money holdings and equities. This is contrasted with Blanchard’s (1981) alternative approach, where...

In the first part of this book, we treat interacting and small open economies. We do this from an historical perspective, starting from the Classical model of the gold standard and the specie-flow mechanism and aim to show there that the Dornbusch IS-LM-PC approach, with or without rational...

Contents: 1. After the GT: Synthesizing Harrod's Knife-Edge Growth and Kaldor's Model of the Trade Cycle -- Part I Output Expansion, Inflation and Fluctuating Growth from a Supply-Side Angle -- 2. Keynes-Wicksell-Goodwin Monetary Growth and the Cascade of Stable Matrices Method -- 3. Output...