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Modelling Financial Instability using Minsky

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I start with a discussion of how economic models should be developed–rejecting the microfoundations approach of Neoclassical economics & instead arguing that we should start from undeniably true economic identities. I develop Goodwin’s model of cyclical growth in Minsky (https://sourceforge.net/projects/minsky/), extend this to include debt and show that this simple model generates both a “Great ...

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I start with a discussion of how economic models should be developed–rejecting the microfoundations approach of Neoclassical economics & instead arguing that we should start from undeniably true economic identities. I develop Goodwin’s model of cyclical growth in Minsky (https://sourceforge.net/projects/minsky/), extend this to include debt and show that this simple model generates both a “Great Moderation” and a debt crisis. I then show that this same model is the simplest possible rendition of a set of dynamic identities about the employment rate, the wages share of output, and the private debt to GDP ratio.


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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