New Book: Fictitious Capital – How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future
by Cédric Durand, translated by David Broder. From Verso: The 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that follow
New Edition: ‘Money – Whence It Came, Where It Went’ by John K. Galbraith, with new foreword by James K. Galbraith
From Princeton University Press: Money is nothing more than what is commonly exchanged for goods or services, so why ha
New Book by Costas Lapavitsas: Marxist Monetary Theory
From Brill: The collected papers of Costas Lapavitsas are a pathway to Marxist monetary theory, a field that continues
Dirk Bezemer & Michael Hudson: Finance Is Not the Economy
By Dirk Bezemer and Michael Hudson Why have economies polarized so sharply since the 1980s, and especially since the 2
New Paper by Carlos Schönerwald & Matías Vernengo: Microfinance, Financial Inclusion, & Rhetoric of Reaction – Evolution & Limitations of Microfinance in Brazil
From the abstract: Several political and academic circles have considered microfinance to be an important tool to pro
Brazil’s Enormous Interest Rate Tax: Can Brazilians Afford It?
By Mark Weisbrot, Jake Johnston, and Julia Villarruel Carrillo This paper looks at Brazil’s unusually high interest
J.W. Mason: Socialize Finance
From Jacobin Magazine: […] The development of finance reveals the progressive displacement of market coordin
New Book by Omar Dahi & Firat Demir: South–South Trade and Finance in the Twenty-First Century
From Anthem Press: This book is a contribution to the international trade and economic development literature and is b
New Working Paper by James Crotty: The Bonus-Driven “Rainmaker” Financial Firm
The Bonus-Driven “Rainmaker” Financial Firm: How These Firms Enrich Top Employees, Erode Shareholder Value and Crea
New Work by Eric Tymoigne: Towards a Heterodox Perspective on Money, Banking, & Macroeconomics
By Eric Tymoigne This work covers banking, central banking, macroeconomic topics, and money in a completely differen
Ismael Hossein-zadeh on Marx on Financial Bubbles
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh While paying homage to Marx for his profound understanding of “the laws of motion of the capita
New Paper by Tony Aspromourgos: Keynes, Public Debt and the Complex of Interest Rates
By Tony Aspromourgos, The role of public debt in Keynes’s economic policy thinking is a question of considerable inter
New Paper by Sergio Cesaratto: Initial and Final Finance in the Monetary Circuit and the Theory of Effective Demand
New Metroeconomica paper by Sergio Cesaratto From the abstract: One remarkable aspect of modern heterodox theory is t
Green Jobs & Sustainable Finance
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Capital, Accumulation, Production and Employment: A WEA Online Conference
Can We Bend the Arc of Global Capital Toward Justice? is an online conference sponsored by the World Economics Associat
SCEPA Presents Yanis Varoufakis, Live Online April 25th
Yanis Varoufakis will deliver the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) annual Robert Heilbroner Mem
A Short Account of the Rise of Neoliberalism
By David M. Fields Between roughly the early 1940’s and early 1970’s, the financial architecture of the w
A Brief Sketch of the Classical-Keynesian Perspective
By David M. Fields From a Classical-Keynesian perspective (Bortis, 1997, 2003), rates of interest regulate rates of p
YSI Workshop @ 2016 ECLAC Summer School on Latin American Economies
The YSI Latin America Working Group is hosting a workshop at the ECLAC/UN Summer School on Latin American economies. Th