Book review: Why Minsky matters, by L. Randall Wray, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2015, £19.95 hardback, 288 pp. 9780691159126

Goodhart, Charles (2017) Book review: Why Minsky matters, by L. Randall Wray, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2015, £19.95 hardback, 288 pp. 9780691159126. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 24 (1). pp. 181-184. ISSN 0967-2567

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Abstract

Yes, Minsky does matter! He had an extraordinarily acute understanding of the interactions between banking, and finance more generally, on one side and the real economy on the other. As the author parades Minsky’s monetary analysis, partly in well-chosen quotations, I was continuously struck by the freshness, even when several decades have elapsed since his death in 1996, and the originality of his monetary analysis

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/current
Additional Information:	© 2017 Taylor & Francis
Divisions:	Financial Markets Group
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Date Deposited:	11 Apr 2017 14:51
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 01:27
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/73403

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