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Omschrijving

This book is about macroeconomics as a major field of economic theory. The reference to "alternative macroeconomic theory" emphasizes the distance from mainstream and Keynesian economics. There are important groundings in this book, notably in Marxian, Keynesian, Schumpeterian, and Minskian approaches, but no strict adhesion to a particular train of thought.

The frontal treatment of "disequilibrium" is the key idiosyncratic feature. Disequilibrium is understood in the strict sense, and equilibria approached as outcomes of actual dynamic processes. The stability and instability of these dynamics are placed on equal footings. Credit mechanisms are a pivotal component of the funding of firms' investment, brewing the destabilizing potential inherent in disequilibrium dynamics. Instability would be the general rule if procedures built in institutions and regulations did not see to it. A special attention is placed on the historical establishment of these mechanisms and their contemporary institutional settings such as the Basel Accords and unconventional macro policies, emphasizing their efficiency. The satisfaction of stability conditions remains, however, conditional, and their recurrent violation is the pivotal component of our analysis of business cycles.

The theory here presented is applied to the empirical study of the U.S. from World War II, but with deep roots in the 19th century surrounded by the broader consideration of social relations: there is no a-historical or a-social macroeconomics.

This book, along with its sister volume, Instability Cycles, Distribution, and Inflation, is essential reading for all macroeconomists and economic theorists, especially those who are open to alternative approaches.