The purpose of this paper is to connect Minsky's (1986) financial instability hypothesis which reveals the inherent endogenous destabilizing forces of monetary production to a social provisioning approach outlined by feminist economists (Jullie Nelson 1993; Hutchinson et al 2002; Power 2004). The paper...

The article discusses consumption as a social process that is a part of social provisioning and is in an evolutionary interplay with other social processes. The discussion is grounded in, but is not limited to the contributions of Thorstein Veblen. The first section delineates social...

This paper establishes connections between the frameworks of social provisioning and functional finance, and discusses a post-Keynesian – Institutionalist theory of the public sector that emerges out of these linkages. The concept of social provisioning has emerged out of Institutional...