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• Book Series
  July 07, 2020

  The Case for a Job Guarantee

  Pavlina R. Tcherneva
  Abstract

  One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating social and…more

• Book Series
  January 10, 2020

  A Great Leap Forward

  L. Randall Wray
  Abstract

  A Great Leap Forward: Heterodox Economic Policy for the 21st Century investigates economic policy from a heterodox and progressive perspective. Author Randall Wray uses relatively short chapters arranged around several…more

• Book Series
  October 01, 2019

  Challenges to Indian Fiscal Federalism

  Abstract

  The principle of fiscal federalism enshrined in India’s Constitution is under severe strain today. This book is a key addition to understanding the challenges involved. The authors capture the implications…more

• Book Series
  February 01, 2019

  Macroeconomics

  L. Randall Wray, William Mitchell, and Martin Watts
  Abstract

  This groundbreaking new core textbook encourages students to take a more critical approach to the prevalent assumptions around the subject of macroeconomics, by comparing and contrasting heterodox and orthodox approaches…more

• Book Series
  April 01, 2018

  America Classifies the Immigrants

  Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  In America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census (Harvard University Press, 2018), Senior Scholar Joel Perlmann traces the evolution of thinking about “race” and “ethnic groups”…more

• Book Series
  March 01, 2018

  Classical Economics Today: Essays in Honor of Alessandro Roncaglia

  Jan Kregel
  Abstract

  Edited by Marcella Corsi, Sapienza University of Rome, Levy Institute Director of Research Jan Kregel, and Carlo D’Ippoliti, Sapienza University of Rome, this new collection of 16 essays is dedicated…more

• Book Series
  November 05, 2015

  Financial Regulation in the European Union

  Abstract

  Have past and more recent regulatory changes contributed to increased financial stability in the European Union (EU), or have they improved the efficiency of individual banks and national financial systems…more

• Book Series
  November 05, 2015

  Why Minsky Matters: An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist

  L. Randall Wray
  Abstract

  Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–1996). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky’s warnings began…more

• Book Series
  September 29, 2015

  Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems, Second Edition

  L. Randall Wray
  Abstract

  In a completely revised second edition, Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray presents the key principles of Modern Money Theory, exploring macro accounting, monetary and fiscal policy, currency regimes, and exchange…more

• Book Series
  November 30, 2014

  Contributions to Economic Theory, Policy, Development and Finance: Essays in Honor of Jan A. Kregel

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  Abstract

  Levy Institute Senior Scholar Jan A. Kregel is a prominent Post-Keynesian economist. This study combines lessons drawn from events and experiences of developing countries and examines them in relation to…more

• Book Series
  October 24, 2014

  Economic Development and Financial Instability: Selected Essays

  Jan Kregel and Rainer Kattel
  Abstract

  This volume is the first collection of essays by Jan Kregel focusing on the role of finance in development and growth, and it demonstrates the extraordinary depth and breadth of…more

• Book Series
  December 17, 2013

  Gender Perspectives and Gender Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis

  Rania Antonopoulos
  Abstract

  With the full effects of the Great Recession still unfolding, this collection of essays analyzes the gendered economic impacts of the crisis. The volume, from an international set of contributors,…more

• Book Series
  April 16, 2013

  Ending Poverty: Jobs, Not Welfare

  Hyman P. Minsky
  Abstract

  Although Hyman P. Minsky is best known for his ideas about financial insta­bility, he was equally concerned with the question of how to create a stable economy that puts an…more

• Book Series
  June 15, 2012

  Contributions in Stock-flow Modeling: Essays in Honor of Wynne Godley

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Gennaro Zezza
  Abstract

  In the 1970s, at a time of shock, controversy and uncertainty over the direction of monetary and fiscal policy, Wynne Godley and the Cambridge Department of Applied Economics rose to…more

• Book Series
  April 10, 2012

  Beyond the Minsky Moment: Where We’ve Been, Why We Can’t Go Back, and the Road Ahead for Financial Reform

  Abstract

  This eBook traces the roots of the 2008 financial meltdown to the structural and regulatory changes leading from the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act to the 1999 Financial Services Modernization Act, and…more

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• Book Series
  September 23, 2010

  The Elgar Companion to Hyman Minsky

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray
  Abstract

  Hyman Minsky’s analysis, in the early 1990s, of the capitalist economy’s transformation in the postwar period accurately predicted the global financial meltdown that began in late 2007. With the republication…more

• Book Series
  January 05, 2010

  Unpaid Work and the Economy

  Rania Antonopoulos and Indira Hirway
  Abstract

  This volume offers both theoretical and policy-oriented examinations of the value of unpaid work, usually unacknowledged but increasingly recognized as an organic component of the economy. Particularly in developing countries,…more

• Book Series
  May 20, 2008

  Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

  Hyman P. Minsky
  Abstract

  The late American economist and Distinguished Scholar Hyman P. Minsky first wrote about the inherent instability of financial markets in the late 1950s, and accurately predicted a transformation of the…more

• Book Series
  May 19, 2008

  John Maynard Keynes

  Hyman P. Minsky
  Abstract

  This reissue of Hyman P. Minsky’s classic book offers a timely reconsideration of the work of economics icon John Maynard Keynes. In it, Minsky argues that what most economists consider…more

• Book Series
  October 15, 2007

  Government Spending on the Elderly

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  Abstract

  The results are in: we are aging—individually and collectively, nationally and globally. In the United States, as in most countries with an advanced economy, the aging of the population will…more

• Book Series
  December 27, 2006

  International Perspectives on Household Wealth

  Edward N. Wolff
  Abstract

  The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyze the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during…more

• Book Series
  July 16, 2006

  The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation

  Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  Abstract

  This book focuses on the distributional consequences of the public sector. It examines and documents, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of government spending and taxation on personal distribution, that…more

• Book Series
  December 01, 2005

  Italians Then, Mexicans Now

  Joel Perlmann
  Abstract

  According to the American dream, hard work and a good education can lift people from poverty to success in the “land of opportunity.” The unskilled immigrants who came to the…more

• Book Series
  August 01, 2004

  Induced Investment and Business Cycles

  Hyman P. Minsky and Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  Abstract

  This unique volume presents, for the first time in publication, the original doctoral thesis of Hyman P. Minsky, one of the most innovative thinkers on financial markets. Dimitri B. Papadimitriou’s…more