Finance, Instability and Economic Crisis: The Marx, Keynes and Minsky Problems in Contemporary Capitalism

Georgios Argitis

No 307, Working Papers from University of Crete, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper introduces a political-economy framework to investigate the role of finance in economic instability and crisis. It is argued that the rise in income of rentiers, private bankers and other groups of financial capitalists merits responsibility for the economic and financial instability, unemployment and an increasing risk of deflation and crisis that many capitalist countries face today. The paper considers a Marx, Keynes and Minsky problem associated with a rise in financial profits and argues that the impact of finance on economic activity is, to a large extent, determined by institutional and structural factors

Keywords: Finance; Income Distribution; Aggregate Demand; Instability; Crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B22 D33 E12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2003-09-17
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