Finance, Growth and Inequality

Edited by Louis-Philippe Rochon, Full Professor, Laurentian University, Canada, Editor-in-Chief, Review of Political Economy, Founding Editor Emeritus, Review of Keynesian Economics and Director, Monetary Policy Institute and Virginie Monvoisin, Associate Professor, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France

• Contents:IntroductionLouis-Philippe Rochon and Virginie MonvoisinPART I POST-KEYNESIAN VIEWS ON FINANCE AND FINANCIALIZATION1. Measuring finance for the economy and finance for financeMarcello Spanò 2. Economic limits of the originate to distribute model of bankingÓscar Dejuán and John S. L. McCombie3. Private pension funds in emerging economies: From broken promises to financialisation Bruno Bonizzi and Diego Guevara 4. Financialization and bancarization of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico: the financial services transformations as from the post-crisis period Alicia Girón and Marcia Solorza PART II POST-KEYNESIAN VIEWS ON Distribution and Growth5. Macroeconomic implications of inequality and household debt: European evidenceJonathan Perraton 6. How can policy tackle inequality in 21st century?Hanna Szymborska 7. Economic policies and growth regimes in France (1974-2016)Hélène de Largentaye and Renaud du Tertre8. Non-conventional fiscal rules in a Kaleckian model of growth and income distribution with external debtPablo G. Bortz, Gabriel Michelena, and Fernando ToledoPART III POST-KEYNESIAN VIEWS ON Monetary Policy9. The transmission of monetary policy in the US: Testing the credit channel and the role of endogenous moneyNathan Perry and Carlos Schönerwald10. Corporate debt expansion in emerging countries after 2008: Profile, determinants and policy implications Cristiano Duarte 11. From trillemma to dilemma: monetary policy after Bretton WoodsHasan Cömert 12. Shifting frames of the expert debate: Quantitative Easing, international Macro-finance and the potential impact of Post-Keynesian ScholarshipMax Nagel and Matthias ThiemannPART IV SOME NOTES ON THE DUAL ECONOMYIntroductionHelene Delargentaye13. Dualism: more or less?David Leadbeater 14. Do the robots come to liberate us or to deepen our inequality? The uncertain macrostructural foundations of the robotic ageArpita Bhattacharjee and Gary Dymski Index

'This invaluable collection brings together the work of the world's leading Post-Keynesian thinkers. With great verve and originality the contributors take on most of the pressing theoretical and policy issues or our time-finance and financialization, monetary policy, economic growth, distribution, and economic dualism. This book belongs on the shelf of academic macroeconomists, their students, and every politician seeking insight and inspiration that will help get us out of the present morass.'--Ilene Grabel, University of Denver, US