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Es ist an der Zeit, etwas Minsky zu lesen | Lars Schall

Eine kleine Einführung in das, was der Ökonom Hyman Minsky die “Hypothese der finanziellen Instabilität“ nannte. … Deflation : Im Normalfall sinken die Preise · Dreckiger Weißer – Chronik eines Hasses der nicht [...]

Killer Cost: The mainstream take

Success of the Keynesian-Neoclassical synthesis eclipsed the debt- deflation hypothesis until Minsky in 1974 retrieved it to shape his own financial instability hypothesis. Minsky supported a view that the business cycle was a … [...]

Randy Wray — Hyman Minsky and the Employer of Last Resort

Randy Wray — Hyman Minsky and the Employer of Last Resort. Collection of Minksy's articles on the JG, and a link …. Mosler Discussing Deflation on WKRO Radio Recordin… Austerity is not the only answer to a debt problem … [...]

Schools of Economic Thought – Nuclear Phynance

To quote Minsky (1986) on current models, “A theory that denies what is happening can happen, sees unfavorable events as the work of evil outside forces (such as the oil crisis) rather than as the result of characteristics of the economic mechanism, may satisfy the politicians' need for a villain or scapegoat, but such a theory offers no useful guide to a solution of the … Thus I've decided to stop wasting my time with “gold is money, deflation is not that [...]

Bitcoin's Deflationary Weirdness | New Economic Perspectives

But economists associate deflation with two negative phenomena: First, if prices are falling then the incentive to hoard the currency increases, since anybody who possesses that currency is seeing its value increase each [...]

The State as the Employer of last Resort ~ Global Labour Column

The deflationary exit strategy from the crisis advocated by the European elites can only lead to a long, painful recession. In the wake … Here, Minsky identifies two anti-unemployment strategies that are richly instructive [...]

Preparedness – Seeking Alpha

St. Louis Federal Reserve President Bullard Wednesday told an audience at the Hyman Minsky Conference in New York that it is “too early” to worry about deflation . That statement must hit most readers of this column as … [...]

Preparedness | Michael Ashton | Safehaven.com

St. Louis Federal Reserve President Bullard today told an audience at the Hyman Minsky Conference in New York that it is “too early” to worry about deflation . That statement must hit most readers of this column as hysterically … [...]

The Economics Forum 21: The Minsky Moment: How Paul Krugman …

A ” Minsky Moment” in which both the lender (“patient capitalist”) and the borrower (“impatient capitalist”) finally realise that theirs is sheer “speculation” and that the “profits” they anticipated from production are not going to materialise …. But Krugman simply “has” to confront this problem – and he does, as we saw, when he acknowledges that “debt-deleveraging” (or Fisherian debt- deflationary ) “shocks” occur when our dear “patient and impatient” capitalists “suddenly … [...]

EconoMonitor : Great Leap Forward » Hyman Minsky's New Book on …

Many of us got this policy from the late Hyman Minsky , who is well-known for his “financial instability hypothesis”. However, in the 1960s and 1970s he wrote nearly as much on unemployment and poverty. Indeed, he linked … [...]