The Tasmaninan Government has recently followed the reputably successful New Brunswick Government of Canada in setting up an industrial strategy to build an information technolgy (IT) industry of significance. The strategy aims to overcome isolation in small region-based economies and...

Many quantitative studies have shown a stylised fact that fluctuations in business fixed investment dominate the business cycle pattern. The dynamics of the investment process have historically been seen as important elements of capital formation and economic progress. Why is it then that...

Costa Rica is a small Central American nation that has gained an international reputation as a leader in environmental conservation. This has formed the base for its highly successful small-scale ecotourism industry. However, there are threats from high rates of deforestation and expanding...

This paper is an academic discourse through the vast new evolutionary economics literature surrounding the knowledge-based economy and what Kalecki s insights can contribute. In a way it is a counterfactual trip into a Kaleckian world as if he was born a century later.

The "economics" problem arises with the need for investment at high and stable levels to produce long term secure employment (even at reduced hours of work and better income distribution), for it is such investments which engenders economic growth with corresponding threats to the sustainability...

Original articles by leading scholars of post Keynesian economics make up this authoritative collection. Current topics of the greatest interest are covered, such as: perspectives on current economic policy; post Keynesian approaches to monetary theory and policy; economic development, growth...

During a distinguished career, Basil Moore has made numerous important contributions to macroeconomics and monetary economics, and is renowned as the progenitor of the ‘horizontalist’ analysis of endogenous money. More recently, he has embraced complexity theory as part of an...