Product Description: 'The rise to dominance of finance in the past three decades has had many profound effects on economic performance. In this book Eckhard Hein provides us with detailed, well-grounded and highly insightful analyses of the macroeconomic impacts on investment, employment, global imbalances, income distribution and much more...read more

Product Description: This unique and comprehensive 'modern guide' presents state-of-the-art surveys covering the main areas of macroeconomics and economic policy by well-known post-Keynesian authors. The chapters explore intriguing and important issues including:- the history and methods of post-Keynesian economics- money, credit and central banks- growth and income distribution- post-Keynesian macroeconomics as an alternative to the New Consensus- the macroeconomics of unemployment and labor market issues- European economic policies- open economy models of distribution and growth- international monetary and global economics- financialisation and financial crisis...read more

Product Description: This book demonstrates that 'monetary analysis', as contained in Post-Keynesian monetary theories, but also in the Neo-Ricardian monetary theory of distribution and in Marx's monetary analysis, can be integrated into Post-Keynesian models of distribution of growth in a convincing way...read more

Product Description: Within the New Consensus Macroeconomics, monetary policy is upgraded while fiscal policy is downgraded. This new monetary policy has been the main instrument of policy under the guise of inflation targeting, an approach pursued by a number of central banks worldwide...read more