Thorstein Veblen and Hyman Minsky are seminal thinkers who place great importance on the interaction between processes that link finance and financial markets with economic and social evolution. This book makes a contribution to the recontextualisation of the habitual, non-evolutionary and laissez-faire macroeconomic theory and policy, thus exposing the relevant contribution of the macro-theories of Veblen and Minsky.
The book starts with an elucidation of Veblens cultural theory of insufficient private demand, waste and financial fragility and instability. It shows how speculative and parasitic leverage engenders solvency illusions and risk, pecuniary efficiency, low quality liability structures and socially destructive boom-bust cycles.Minskyscreative destruction liquidity processes and coordination failures of cash flow escalate the aforementioned path-dependent developments and explosive dynamics of capitalist economies. The main themes of the book are the cultural, evolutionary and holistic vision of macroeconomics, the evolving habits of mind, routines and financial institutions, the speculative, manipulated and unstable financial markets, as well as the financial macroeconomic destabilizing effects of pecuniary and parasitic consumption and investment.
This book will be of great interest to researchers, intellectuals and students pursuing economics and finance.
Preface
Introduction
1. Veblens Cultural Macroeconomics
2. The pragmatic basis of Veblens approach to economic policy
3. Unsustainable asset and liability structures, market processes and Minskys macroeconomics
4. Minskys institutional stabilisers and endogenous capitalist instability
5. Cultural financial foundations for evolutionary macroeconomics
Epilogue
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