This paper argues that modified versions of the so–called "New Cambridge" approach to macroeconomic modeling are both quite useful for modeling real capitalist economies in historical time and perfectly compatible with the "vision" underlying modern Post–Keynesian stock–flow consistent...

This paper proposes a fully consistent and general "Minskyan artificial economy" and uses it to analyze a small but representative sample of "formal Minskyan" models. It concludes that these models often assume oversimplified hypotheses that do not do justice to Minsky's literary analyses and,...

The long economic expansion was fueled by an unprecedented rise in private expenditure relative to income, financed by a growing flow of net credit to the private. On the surface, it seemed that the growing burden of the household sector's debt was counterbalanced by a spectacular rise in the...

As we projected in a previous strategic analysis, the U.S. economy experienced growth rates higher than 4 percent in 2004. The question we want to raise in this strategic analysis is whether these rates will persist or come back down. We believe that several signs point in the latter direction....

This paper reviews the theoretical roots and empirical basis of the so-called ?Structuralist-Keynesian? view on the unsustainability of current U.S. macroeconomic policies, associated with the names of Wynne Godley, Lance Taylor and John Eatwell, among others. It contrasts it with other views on...

This paper reviews the general tenets of 'stock-flow consistent' and the 'formal Minskyan' literatures and argues that the advantages and weaknesses of the latter become clearer when analyzed with the tools of the former. It also analyzes a small but representative and influential sample of...

Despite being arguably one of the most active areas of research in heterodox macroeconomics, the study of the dynamic properties of stock-flow consistent (SFC) growth models of financially sophisticated economies is still in its early stages. This paper attempts to offer a contribution to this...

This paper argues that institutionally rich stock-flow consistent models—that is, models in which economic agents are identified with the main social categories/institutional sectors of actual capitalist economies, the short period behavior of these agents is thoroughly described, and the...

Despite being arguably the most rigorous form of structuralist/post-Keynesian macroeconomics, stock-flow consistent models are quite often complex and difficult to deal with. This paper presents a model that, despite retaining the methodological advantages of the stock-flow consistent method, is...

The main arguments in this paper can be simply stated: 1) If output in the US grows fast enough to keep unemployment constant between now and 2010 and if there is no further depreciation in the dollar, the deficit in the balance of trade is likely to get worse, perhaps reaching 7.5 per cent by...