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Ashwani Saith Discusses His Book Cambridge Economics In The Post-Keynesian Era: The Eclipse Of Heterodox Traditions

There’s a webinar for the Review Of Political Economy where Ashwani Saith discusses his new book on Cambridge economics, hosted by Louis-Philippe Rochon and with discussion from Francis Cripps, Marc Lavoie and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo.

The event was held on Feb 2, 2023.

[The title is the link to the video on YouTube]

Marc Lavoie’s New Book — Post-Keynesian Growth Theory: Selected Essays

Marc Lavoie’s has a new book Post-Keynesian Growth Theory: Selected Essays with a collection of his essays on some of his important papers on growth. The cover features Michal Kalecki, Nicholas Kaldor, Joan Robinson and Luigi Pasinetti. Will be out soon.

In the same series, there’s also a book from 2020 Post-Keynesian Monetary Theory: Selected Essays. You can preview the introduction to this book on Google Books. So even if you’ve read all the papers, don’t miss the detailed introduction which gives an idea of his thoughts through the years. It also has a foreword by Louis-Philippe Rochon. And an interview with him on that book.

There are also two more separate videos you might be interested: Introduction To Post-Keynesian Economics For The Post-COVID Era and The Importance Of Michal Kalecki.

Honouring Marc Lavoie And Mario Seccareccia

There will be a webinar on Aug 22nd in honour of Marc Lavoie and Mario Seccareccia. The details are available on a special Facebook page for this.

There are two volumes of essays in their honour. Links:

  1. Volume 1,
  2. Volume 2.

In addition, there’s a new book (forthcoming) with selected essays of Marc.

Image from Louis-Philippe Rochon

Essays In Honour Of Marc Lavoie And Mario Seccareccia

Hassan Bougrine and Louis-Philippe Rochon have edited two volumes of essays in honour of Marc Lavoie and Mario Seccareccia!

Publisher’s pages for the books:

  1. Credit, Money And Crises In Post-Keynesian Economics:
  2. Economic Growth And Macroeconomic Stabilization Policies In Post-Keynesian Economics

Volume 1

Volume 2

The contents of the two books are available in the links to the publisher’s website above.

Cover images credits: Louis-Philippe Rochon on Twitter.

Louis-Philippe Rochon On Basil Moore And The Supply Of Credit

Basil Moore passed away recently, as I mentioned a few days back in this blog.

One of the criticisms of Moore’s work was the passive role of banks. Louis-Philippe Rochon has an excellent article in his Festschrift Complexity, Endogenous Money and Macroeconomic Theory — Essays in Honour Of Basil J. Moore, Edward Elgar, 2006, to further develop Moore’s views.

Below is the scan of the full article, provided to me by LP for posting here.

The object below is an embed of the pdf. If the embed doesn’t display, or to get a better view, you can open it in a separate browser tab here.



New Book: Advances In Endogenous Money Analysis

There’s a nice new book titled, Advances In Endogenous Money Analysis, edited by Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi.

There’s a great chapter on Nicholas Kaldor’s views on money over the years by John E. King and another by Marc Lavoie titled, Assessing Some Structuralist Claims Through A Coherent
Stock–Flow Framework. John E. King also discusses the importance of fiscal policy in Kaldor’s work:

Kaldor continued to insist on the importance of fiscal policy. The first point in his ‘constructive programme of recovery’ from the world stagflationary crisis of the early 1980s was international agreement on ‘coordinated fiscal action including a set of consistent balance of payments targets and “full employment” budgets’ (Kaldor, 1996, pp. 86, 87). Existing budget deficits, he maintained, were

largely the consequence of the low level of activity. On a ‘full employment’ basis they would show a highly restrictive picture – they would show surpluses and not deficits. Contrary to appearances, the requirement of stability is for expansionary budgets – with lower taxes and higher expenditure, and not further fiscal restriction (as is advocated, for example, by M. de Larosiere of the International Monetary Fund). (Ibid., p. 87)

International coordination was critical to the success of this strategy. Trade liberalization was not consistent with full employment: ‘under conditions of unrestricted free trade the actual volume of production and trade may in fact be considerably less than under some system of regulated trade’ (ibid., italics in the original).

New Introductory Book On Macroeconomics

Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi have edited a new introductory book titled, An Introduction To Macroeconomics: A Heterodox Approach To Economic Analysis. 

Contents

Introduction: The Need for a Heterodox Approach to Economic Analysis
Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi

PART I ECONOMICS, ECONOMIC ANALYSIS, AND ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

1. What is Economics?
Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi

2. The History of Economic Theories
Heinrich Bortis

3. Monetary Economies of Production
Louis-Philippe Rochon

PART II MONEY, BANKS, AND FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

4. Money and Banking
Marc Lavoie and Mario Seccareccia

5. The Financial System
Jan Toporowski

6. The Central Bank and Monetary Policy
Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi

PART III THE MACROECONOMICS OF THE SHORT AND LONG RUN

7. Aggregate Demand
Jesper Jespersen

8. Inflation and Unemployment
Alvaro Cencini and Sergio Rossi

9. The Role of Fiscal Policy
Malcolm Sawyer

10. Economic Growth and Development
Mark Setterfield

11. Wealth Distribution
Omar Hamouda

PART IV INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY

12. International Trade and Development
Robert A. Blecker

13. Balance-of-payments Constrained Growth
John McCombie and Nat Tharnpanich

14. European Monetary Union
Sergio Rossi

PART V RECENT TRENDS
15. Financialization
Gerald A. Epstein

16. Imbalances and Crises
Robert Guttmann

17. Sustainable Development
Richard P.F. Holt

Conclusion: Do we Need Microfoundations for Macroeconomics?
John King

Index

An Introduction To Macroeconomics - Louis-Philippe Rochon, Sergio Rossi

You can preview the book on Google Books here and the publisher’s site for the book is here.