1. Introduction : Minsky on money, banking and finance / Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray -- 2. What would Minsky have thought of the mortgage crisis? / Jan Kregel -- 3. Minsky and economic policy : "Keynesianism" all over again? / Éric Tymoigne -- 4. Minsky in the "new" capitalism...

Institute President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray contend that the prevailing approach to monetary policy and inflation is influenced by a set of concepts that are a poor guide to action. In this policy brief, they examine two previous cases in which the Federal...

A revisionist view of economic history now holds that New Deal legislation that, in particular, enabled unionization in the early 1930s seriously prolonged the Great Depression. The freshwater economists who hold this view have had a wide hearing. These two economists consider their arguments...

The work of Hyman Minsky represents an important link between Post Keynesians and Institutionalists. This essay begins with a brief summary of Minsky's early work, including his well-known financial instability hypothesis and his policy proposals designed to reform the financial system. It then...