Why Minsky Matters : : An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist / / L. Randall Wray.

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• VerfasserIn: Wray, L. Randall,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–96). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky's warnings began a half-century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. Yet e...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Overview of Minsky’s Main Contributions
• 2. Where Did We Go Wrong? Macroeconomics and the Road Not Taken
• 3. Minsky’s Early Contributions: The Financial Instability Hypothesis
• 4. Minsky’s Views on Money and Banking
• 5. Minsky’s Approach to Poverty and Unemployment
• 6. Minsky and the Global Financial Crisis
• 7. Minsky and Financial Reform
• 8. Conclusion: Reforms to Promote Stability, Democracy, Security, and Equality
• Notes
• Further Reading
• The Collected Writings of Hyman P. Minsky
• Index