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Keynes vs Minsky

I am truly a beginner in economics. By reading Positive Money book 'Modernising Money' by Ben Dyson and Andrew Jackson, my eyes and brain are getting wide open to new possibilities. My interest grew in the work of Minsky and encouraged me to read more about Keynes.

Keynes economics promote the view that in the long run economics system converge into an equilibrium with the support of the government. Nevertheless you cannot help the role of banks in the system and wonder after reading the following quote:

“But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.” (Keynes, 1923)

This implied that economists did not comprehend why we had a financial crisis and collapse. Minsky with  his model 'Financial Instability Hypothesis' strive to answer this question. The idea in Minsky's work in a 'simplistic summary is that in very good environments economic decision will be made with an overconfidence of financial stability. Ultimately it motivate excess leverage that advance farther than a stable economy' (Coates, 2009)

We could summarize the whole in three words 

'STABILITY IS DESTABILISING'

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I will be grateful if you would comment this post and give me some indications on other good sources of information I could read on. Thank you!



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