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Department of Economics Working Papers,
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics
No 124: Post Keynesian economics - how to move forward
Engelbert Stockhammer () and Paul Ramskogler ()
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Engelbert Stockhammer: Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics & B.A.
Paul Ramskogler: Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics & B.A.
Abstract: Post Keynesian Economics (PKE) is at a cross road. The academic climate at universities has become more hostile to survival and the mainstream has become more diverse internally. Moreover, a heterodox camp of diverse groups of non-mainstream economists is forming. The debate on the future of PKE has so far focussed on the relation to the mainstream. This paper argues that this is not an important issue for the future of PKE. The debate has overlooked the dialectics between academic hegemony and economic (and social) stability. The important question is, whether PKE offers useful explanations of the ongoing socio-economic transformation. PKE has generated valuable insights but it offers little on important real world phenomena such as supply-side phenomena like the increasing use of ICT and the globalisation of production, social issues like precarisation and the polarization of income distribution or ecological challenges like climate change. It is these issues that will decide the future of PKE.
JEL-codes: B20; B50; B59; E12 December 2008
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