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Preventing the Last Crisis: Minsky's Forgotten Lessons Ten Years after Lehman

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Ten years after the fall of Lehman Brothers and the collapse of the US financial system, most commentaries remain overly focused on the proximate causes of the last crisis and the regulations put in place to prevent a repetition. According to Director of Research Jan Kregel, there is a broader set of lessons, which can be unearthed in the work of Distinguished Scholar Hyman Minsky, that needs to play a more central role in these debates on the 10th anniversary of the crisis. This insight begins with Minsky's account of how crisis is inherent to capitalist finance. Such an account directs us to shore up those government institutions that can serve as bulwarks against the inherent instability of the financial system--institutions that can prevent that instability from turning into a prolonged crisis in the real economy.

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  • Jan Kregel, 2018. "Preventing the Last Crisis: Minsky's Forgotten Lessons Ten Years after Lehman," Economics Policy Note Archive 18-5, Levy Economics Institute.
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