Minsky's 'financial instability hypothesis': The not-too-Keynesian optimism of a financial Cassandra

Computable Constructive and Behavioural Economic Dynamics: Essays in Honour of Kumaraswamy (Vela) Velupillai

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 462-484

  De Antoni, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203860144     Document Type: Chapter

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