Conversations with post Keynesians

the long version

This book contains conversations with fifteen prominent Post Keynesian economists on the current state of economic theory and practice, and how both might be improved. Among those interviewed are major economists in Britain, North America and Austria, including Paul Davidson, Basil Moore, Victoria Chick, Geoff Harcourt and Kurt Rothschild, who express their opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of Post Keynesian theory and on the relations between Post Keynesian thinking and the views of other dissident schools. At a time of crisis in the world capitalist economy, the failings of mainstream macroeconomics are especially obvious and the need for an alternative approach is particularly urgent. These conversations indicate how the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and Michal Kalecki, suitably revised and updated, can be used to construct an alternative economics and to restore the prospect of full employment in the late 1990s.