First paragraph: In early August 2009 the 2nd Summer School of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) was held in Berlin. As in the previous year, about 50 graduate students, young researchers and senior lecturers from all over the world came together to discuss...

First paragraph: It is with great pleasure that we participate in this Special Forum discussion of our Macroeconomic Theory and Macroeconomic Pedagogy (MTMP) (Fontana/Setterfield 2009). Before discussing the comments by Claudio Sardoni and Sebastian Dullien, we would first like to outline the...

This paper discusses the treatment of growth as a path-dependent process in post-Keynesian macrodynamics. A synthetic post-Keynesian growth model is used to demonstrate the ways in which growth can be described as path-dependent in the post-Keynesian tradition. Recent developments in...