Foundations of Post-Keynesian Economic Analysis

. . . [provides] excellent expositions for students [and] should allow discussion to concentrate on the theoretical consistency of the various components of the post Keynesian alternative. J.A. Kregel, The Economic Journal I would have no hesitation in strongly recommending this book to advanced undergraduate and graduate students and scholars who would like an overview of post Keynesian economic theory. . . Its authoritative and comprehensive account of post Keynesian economics and its admirable synthesis of a large body of diverse work into a coherent and compelling whole. Amitava Krishna Dutt, Review of Social Economy Lavoie succeeds in providing a comprehensive overview of post Keynesian economics, which shows that there is no need to restrict economics exclusively to the neoclassical paradigm. Werner Meissner, Kyklos . . . this book provides a worthwhile introduction to a literature that constructively challenges the orthodoxy. Brenda l. Spotton, Canadian Journal of Economics Lavoie s methodological analysis is praiseworthy. . . Lavoie made an important contribution to the construction of a consistent alternative to neoclassical economics. . . Gilberto Tadeu Lima, RRPE This innovative book demonstrates that it is possible to construct a coherent alternative to neoclassical economics based on the contributions of post Keynesian and Kaleckian economists. It identifies elements from the non-orthodox traditions, in particular from the neo-Ricardian school, that can be welded into a convincing alternative theoretical framework. The building blocks of this synthesis are the non-neo-classical microeconomic foundations of the theory of choice and of the firm. By emphasizing the consequences of a world characterized by true uncertainty and oligopolistic dominance, Marc Lavoie extends short-period paradoxes to the analysis of the long period, and bases these macroeconomic results on microeconomic foundations.