Alternative Approaches in Macroeconomics

1. Introduction
Philip Arestis

2. John McCombie’s Contribution to the Applied Economics of Growth in a Closed and Open Economy
A. P. Thirlwall

3. Why Neither Samuelson’s Neoclassical Synthesis Keynesianism Nor New Keynesianism Theory Is Compatible with Keynes’s General Theory Explanation of the Cause of Unemployment
Paul Davidson

4. The Role of Commercial Banks and Financial Intermediaries in the New Consensus Macroeconomics (NCM): A Preliminary and Critical Appraisal of Old and New Models
Giuseppe Fontana, Marco Veronese Passarella

5. Microeconomics, Mesoeconomics and Macroeconomics
Malcolm Sawyer

6. A Coherent Approach to Macroeconomic Theory and Economic Policies
Philip Arestis

7. Is the Share of Income of the Top One Per cent Due to the Marginal Product of Labour or Managerial Power?
Marta R. M. Spreafico

8. Macroeconomic Lessons from the Financialisation Process
Jesús Ferreiro

9. Financial Instability and Speculative Bubbles: Behavioural Insights and Policy Implications
Michelle Baddeley

10. Sophistication, Productivity and Trade: A Sectoral Investigation
João P. Romero, Gustavo Britto

11. Urban Growth in South Asia: A View from Outer Space
Mark Roberts

12. Production Functions, the Kaldor-Verdoorn Law and Methodology
Marc Lavoie

13. Is the Balance of Payments Constrained Growth Rate Time-Varying? Exchange Rate Over Valuation, Policy-Induced Recessions, Deindustrialization, and Long Run Growth
Mark Setterfield, Selen Ozcelik

Keywords: Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Heterodox Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods