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Workshop 04 Post Keynesian Dynamics using Minsky

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Building a model of Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis on the foundations of Goodwin’s model; The emergent properties of this model: (1) A cyclically rising debt level (predicted by Minsky) (2) Rising inequality (probably expected by Minsky, but not predicted) and (3) Diminishing cycles in employment, economic growth, and inflation, before a crisis (totally unexpected); The ...

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Building a model of Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis on the foundations of Goodwin’s model;


The emergent properties of this model:


(1) A cyclically rising debt level (predicted by Minsky)


(2) Rising inequality (probably expected by Minsky, but not predicted) and


(3) Diminishing cycles in employment, economic growth, and inflation, before a crisis (totally unexpected);


The pathetic reaction of Neoclassical economists to the Bank of England’s paper rejecting Loanable Funds and supporting the Post Keynesian model of Endogenous Money (which I call “Bank Originated Money and Debt”, or BOMD);


Using Godley Tables in Minsky to build a basic monetary model of capitalism


Steve Keen
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.

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