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James Tobin was an American economist associated with Keynesian macroeconomics and the study of financial markets. He received the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for analyzing financial markets and their relationship to spending, employment, production, and prices. His name is also a...

Hyman Minsky was an American economist, born in 1919 and deceased in 1996, whose work examined credit, banking, and financial crises. His financial instability hypothesis argues that prolonged periods of economic stability can encourage borrowers and lenders to accept progressively greater risks, ma...

Joan Robinson was a prominent British economist who lived from 1903 to 1983 and was closely associated with the University of Cambridge. In 1933, she published "The Economics of Imperfect Competition," a foundational text that introduced new analytical tools for understanding markets between monopol...

Michał Kalecki was a Polish Marxist economist who lived from 1899 to 1970 and made profound, independent contributions to macroeconomic theory. Working several years before John Maynard Keynes, Kalecki developed a similar theory of effective demand, establishing the mathematical foundations of how a...

Nicholas Kaldor (1908–1986) was a Hungarian-British economist and a figure in post-Keynesian economics. He is best known for developing the Kaldor-Hicks efficiency criterion and for his work on economic growth theory, often summarized in Kaldor's growth laws. He served as a professor at the Universi...

Summarizing John Maynard Keynes's groundbreaking 1936 macroeconomics treatise, this pamphlet outlines the revolutionary economic theories that justified active government intervention.

Piero Sraffa (1898–1983) was an influential Italian economist who spent most of his career at the University of Cambridge. He is best known for his 1960 book, "Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities," which revived classical economics and mounted a rigorous critique of neoclassical capita...

Roy Harrod was a prominent British economist who spent the majority of his academic career at Oxford University. He is most widely recognized for his development of an early macroeconomic model of economic growth, which, alongside the similar work of Evsey Domar, became known as the Harrod-Domar mod...

Evsey D. Domar (1914–1997) was a Russian-American Keynesian economist who spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is best known for independently developing, alongside Roy Harrod, the Harrod–Domar growth model, which relates a country's rate of economic growth to it...