New Book: The Power of Finance – Financialization and the Real Economy
By Malcolm Sawyer. From Agenda Publishing: Finance has long been an integral part of the capitalist economy, yet since
New book: When Things Don’t Fall Apart – Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence
By Ilene Grabel. From MIT Press: In When Things Don’t Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the gl
Are We Heading for Another Economic Crash?
By Cihan Aksan & Jon Bailes, This article was first published by State of Nature, as part of the monthly “One Q
New Book: Financial Underpinnings of Europe’s Financial Crisis – Liberalization, Integration, and Asymmetric State Power
By Nina Eichacker. From Edward Elgar: This book analyzes how financial liberalization affected the development of th
New Book: Worst-Case Economics – Extreme Events in Climate and Finance
By Frank Ackerman. From Anthem Press: Worst-case scenarios are all too real, and all too common. The financial crisis o
New Book: Who’s Afraid of John Maynard Keynes? Challenging Economic Governance in an Age of Growing Inequality
By Paul Davidson. From Palgrave: Davidson explains the importance of the market economy, and unveils how and why globa
New Book: Playing with Fire – Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South
By Yilmaz Akyüz. From Oxford University Press: Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (ED
Call for Papers: The Real Estate/Financial Complex International Conference
September (19-)20-22, 2017 (exact start and end time: t.b.d.) Leuven, Belgium We have a few openings for speakers at th
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
Another US Housing Bubble?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPgkDk1U42k&w=760&h=500] Michael Hudson explains that eve
International Post-Keynesian and Institutionalist Conference: Instability, Growth & Regulation
7-9 December 2017. Grenoble University, Grenoble, France This multidisciplinary conference aims at bringing toget
Global crisis, Neoliberalism, and left alternatives
By Alfredo Saad-Filho, The certainties that turned neoliberalism into the “common sense” of our age are melting into t
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 Book by Steve Keen: Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?
From Polity (to be released April 2017): The Financial Crash that convulsed the world in 2008 had cataclysmic effects o
New Book: The Political Economy of Emerging Markets – Varieties of BRICS in Age of Global Crises & Austerity
From Routledge: Rapid and sustained growth in the 21st century global economy of large developing economies includin
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
Meet the Renegades with Michael Hudson
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH8FWrbzxEs&w=400&h=225] With every major financial rec
Lara Merling and Dean Baker: The Housing Bubble, Is It Back?
By Lara Merling and Dean Baker, In the last decade, there was an unprecedented run-up in house prices in most parts of the
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 Book by Dirk H. Ehnts: Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics
From Routledge: This book provides a new methodological approach to money and macroeconomics. Realizing that the abs