This paper compares Marx's economics with those by Sraffa, Keynes, Kalecki and Minsky. The paper takes an "ex post" view on the matter and rather looks at the output side of the respective authors, but not at the input side. This means no attempt is made at studying in a systematic way, if and...

Keynes, following the tradition of Marx, argued that all values are created by labour and profits. However, functional income distribution between wages and profits is explained differently. In Marx's explanation of functional income distribution, wages are given as a basket of goods needed for...

This paper presents an overview of different models which explain financial crises, with the aim of understanding economic developments during and possibly after the Great Recession. In the first part approaches based on efficient markets and rational expectations hypotheses are analyzed, which...

The paper is on one of the best Macroeconomics teachers and a finest Marxists of our time, who is none other than Professor Patnaik. The reading is neither decisive nor trivial to understand the contribution of a behemoth personality, nonetheless, presents a humble perception of some of his work...

This paper investigates Oskar Lange’s 1938 article, “The Rate of Interest and the Optimum Propensity to Consume”, with the intention of providing a thorough interpretation of this rather obscure work. We explore in depth Lange’s theory of interest and its relationship with both Keynes’...

This paper analyzes to what extent John Maynard Keynes was successful in showing that the economic system tends to fluctuate around a position of equilibrium below full employment in the long run. It is argued that a successful extension of Keynes's principle of effective demand to the long run...

This paper extends a long tradition of Western analyses of Russian economic thought on Keynes, updating the story through the period that followed the global financial crisis of 2007-2008. We survey contemporary views of Keynesianism by mainstream and traditionalist economists and consider the...

We extend the long literary tradition of Western analyses of Russian economic thought on Keynes. First, we update the story through transition and into the current period. Second, we survey representative contemporary literature on Keynes, identifying four manifestations: that by historians of...

In a recent article, Tom Palley begins his critique of Keynesian economics with the well-known story of a drunkard who, when searching for his lost keys, looks not in the darkness of the nearby lawn where he misplaced them, but instead under the light cone of a lamp post because, when asked, he...

Marx's theory of money is critiqued relative to the advent of fiat and electronic currencies and the development of financial markets. Specific topics of concern include (1) today's identity of the money commodity, (2) possible heterogeneity of the money commodity, (3) the categories of land and...