FROM the start of his academic career in the 1950s until 1996, when he died, Hyman Minsky laboured in relative obscurity. His research about financial crises and their causes attracted a few devoted ...

This is the year that economics might, if we are lucky, turn a corner. There’s a deluge of calls for change in the way it is taught in universities. There’s a global conference at the Organisation for ...

Jinny: I don’t blame you for not being aware about the term. Hyman Minsky, the economist after whose name the term has been coined, is after all not a household name. But sometimes when the circular ...

Alan Minsky, Program Director at Pacifica’s KPFK in Los Angeles joins us to talk about the boom and bust cycle that occurs repeatedly in capitalist economies. Minsky’s father, Hyman Minsky was the ...