To explain the pronounced instability of the world economy since the 1970s, the book offers an important and systematic theoretical examination of money and finance.

1999

Level: adelantado

Political Economy of Money and Finance

Costas Lapavitsas; Makoto Itoh

Palgrave Macmillan

Anwar Shaikh seeks in his lectures for alternative explanations for empirically observed macro and microeconomic patterns of economic fluctuations, price volatility, and economic development.

Level: adelantado

Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crisis

Anwar Shaikh

The New School

In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land.

The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism—the theory that market-based solutions are always best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated mainstream economics, and their influence created a system where an unthinking faith in markets led many to view speculative investments as fundamentally safe.

2012

Level: debutante

Zombie Economics

John Quiggin

Princeton University Press

This book retraces the history of macroeconomics from Keynes's General Theory to the present. Central to it is the contrast between a Keynesian era and a Lucasian - or dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) - era, each ruled by distinct methodological standards.

2016

Level: adelantado

A History of Macroeconomics from Keynes to Lucas and Beyond

Vroey, Michel de

Cambridge University Press

One of the most authoritative authors on the intellectual heritage of John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky draws a sketch of the great man's economic thinking both accessible and insightful.

2010

Level: debutante

Keynes: A Very Short Introduction

Robert Skidelsky

Oxford University Press

This book gives a very clear overview of the history of Macroeconomics and how it has evolved. It reflects on the different perspectives and debates that have defined the field, with valuable insight into the history and theory of economic policy.

2005

Level: adelantado

Modern Macroeconomics

Brian Snowdon and Howard Vane

E. Elgar

This volume focuses on the importance of the history of economic thought as an intellectual discipline. It counters the arguments of some contemporary economists who describe it as studying the mistakes of the past. However, all the great economists - Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Marshall, Keynes and even Milton Friedman - have drawn on the history of economics to find an appropriate pedigree for their own theoretical innovations.

1991

Level: adelantado

The Historiography of Economics

Mark Blaug

E. Elgar Pub.