1st Edition

Post-Keynesian Economics Selected Essays on Pricing, Money and Growth

By Marc Lavoie Copyright 2026
342 Pages
by Routledge

342 Pages
by Routledge

This comprehensive collection brings together sixteen influential papers by Marc Lavoie that showcase the depth and breadth of post-Keynesian economic thought. Organized into four thematic sections, this volume offers critical insights into theoretical foundations, pricing mechanisms, monetary systems, and growth models that challenge mainstream economic paradigms. Beginning with foundational... Read more

Foreword

Mario Seccareccia

 

Introduction

Appendix: How Can Critics so Bright as Colander, Holt & Rosser Be so Misunderstood by Heterodox Economists?

 

Part I: On Post-Keynesian Economics

 

1. Towards a New Research Programme for Post-Keynesianism and Neo-Ricardianism

 

2. Perspectives for Post-Keynesian Economics

 

3. Post-Keynesianism in Canada: From an Extraordinary Beginning to an Uncertain Future?

With Mario Seccareccia

 

 

Part II: On Pricing

 

4. Frederic Lee and Post-Keynesian Pricing Theory

 

5. Mark-up Pricing versus Normal Cost Pricing in Post-Keynesian Models

 

6. Realism, Simulations and Post-Keynesian Pricing Models: A Response to Lee

With Peter Downward and Peter Reynolds

 

 

Part III: On Money

 

7. Jacques Le Bourva's Theory of Endogenous Credit-Money

 

8. A System with Zero Reserves and with Clearing Outside of the Central Bank: The Canadian Case

 

9. MMT, Sovereign Currencies and the Eurozone

 

10. Where Do the Pasinetti Rule and the Pasinetti Index Come from?

With Mario Seccareccia

 

11. The New Consensus on Monetary Policy and its Post-Keynesian Critique

With Peter Kriesler

 

12. Conflictual Inflation and the Phillips Curve

 

13. A Simple Stock-Flow Consistent Model with Short-Term and Long-Term Debt: A Comment on Claudio Sardoni

With Gennaro Zezza

 

 

Part IV: On Growth and Distribution

 

14. Kaleckian Effective Demand and Sraffian Normal Prices: Towards a Reconciliation

 

15. Cadrisme within a Post-Keynesian Model of Growth and Distribution

 

16. Overhead Labour Costs in a Neo-Kaleckian Growth Model with Autonomous Non-Capacity Creating Expenditures

With Won Jun Nah

Biography

Marc Lavoie is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Ottawa, Canada, where he has taught for over 35 years, and Professor Emeritus at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France. He is also Research Fellow at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany, and Research Associate at the Broadbent Institute, Toronto, Canada. Lavoie has published more than 250 articles or book chapters in a wide variety of fields, in particular macroeconomics and monetary economics. He has written Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to Money, Income, Production and Wealth (2007, with Wynne Godley), edited Wage-led Growth: An Equitable Strategy for Economic Recovery (2013, with E. Stockhammer), and In Defense of Post-Keynesian and Heterodox Economics (2013, with F. Lee). He is also the author of Post-Keynesian Economics: New Foundations (2022), which is an exhaustive account of post-Keynesian economic analysis.