This paper first discusses the evolution of John Kenneth Galbraith from a young neoclassical economist to a strong advocate of Keynes's policies. Later, it explains how Galbraith encouraged and supported the development of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.

This paper explains, in terms of Galbraith's "conventional wisdom" and "innocent fraud" of mainstream economics, why the U.S. economy has experienced significant backsliding from the degree of progress our economic policies and institutions made toward producing a civilized economic society. It...

This paper discusses the hollowing out of the middle class in the United States since the late 1970s, and suggests that the latest threat to the remaining middle class is automation.

Despite a significant decline in the value of the dollar, the U.S. trade imbalance has almost doubled in the past three years indicating that the Marshall-Lerner condition is not applicable. Continued political pressure to devalue the dollar may result in the end of the de facto dollar standard...

This paper responds to the criticism that many heterodox economists, who want to be labeled as Post Keynesians, are rejected by my defining Post Keynesian theory as limited to those theories that adopt Keynes's analytical framework of aggregate demand and supply functions derived from the...

In 1989, John Williamson summarized a "Washington Consensus" on what policies developing countries should undertake to stimulate economic growth given the international financial system. Unfortunately, the experience of the 1990s demonstrated that the international financial system is seriously...

The evidence of the past 15 years has demonstrated that attempting to implement the 10 reforms of the Washington Consensus has ultimately proven to be a disaster for developing nations. If the empirical evidence is of the failure of the Washington Consensus, then why does the G-7, the World...

Classical theory monetarists assumed the quantity theory's equation of exchange gave the central bank direct control of inflation via an exogenous money supply. After Milton Friedman's "natural rate of unemployment" thesis, classical theory recognized that inflation targeting could only be...

Does Minsky's theory explain recent market instability? For financial fragility, Minsky argued, specific preconditions must occur. These preconditions have not occurred, therefore recent financial market instability is not a Minsky moment. Instead the recent financial market instability is due...