On the Takeover Mechanism in Market Socialism

Just published in the Journal of Economics is the paper “On the Takeover Mechanism in Market Socialism”, written with Matteo Sommacal . In the three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the notion of socialism has been swept into almost total disrepute. The more recent economic literature, however, […]

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Economy-Finance-Environment-Society Interconnections In a Stock-Flow Consistent Dynamic Model

This article – written with Matteo Deleidi, Riccardo Pariboni and Marco Veronese Passarella – work takes inspiration from four theoretical strands: recent developments in ecological macroeconomics; the Schumpeterian framework of evolutionary economics that emphasises the entrepreneurial role of the State; the stock-flow consistent approach to macroeconomic modelling; and the supermultiplier […]

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A Modern Guide to Post-Keynesian Institutional Economics

The last couple of decades have seen the publications of many and often disparate contributions that build on the shared view of John Maynard Keynes and John Commons. A Modern Guide to Post-Keynesian Institutional Economics (PKIE) recently published by Edward Elgar and edited by Charles J. Whalen is a careful review of […]

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Understanding Socialism from the Outside and from the Inside: an Interview with Alberto Chilosi

Alberto Chilosi belongs to the last generation of scholars who studied the socialist system and have been able to gain first-hand experience of its operation under “real socialism”. His extraordinary testimony features a series of analyses, thoughts, and anecdotes on the workings of this system that have often been overlooked […]

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What modern monetary theory is, and what it is not

Modern monetary theory (MMT) has grown in popularity in recent years. Several central bankers have made passing comments about it. However, the publication of two papers by Drumetz and Pfister of the Banque de France in 2021 represents the first attempt at a more systematic assessment of MMT by two […]

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Inequality and Exchange Rate Movements in an Open-Economy Macroeconomic Model

This article – written with Francesco Ruggeri and Marco Veronese Passarella – presents a complete macroeconomic (SFC) model to study income and wealth distribution in an open economy. We argue that exchange rates and the stock of foreign debt play a major role in shaping inequality across and within countries. Using the ‘relative […]

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Competitive vs Cumulative Approach in Teaching Macroeconomics: Some Thoughts on Recent Popular Textbooks

In this paper I critically evaluate two different approaches to teaching macroeconomics at the undergraduate level through the comparison of two popular, recent handbooks: Olivier Blanchard’s Macroeconomics (2021) and William Mitchell, Randall Wray and Martin Watts’s Macroeconomics (2019). These textbooks are taken as benchmarks of two opposite views of the discipline: the cumulative as […]

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The Trade-Off between Inflation and Unemployment in an ‘MMT World’: An Open-Economy Perspective.

This paper – written with Matteo Deleidi – is focused on modern monetary theory’s (MMT) treatment of inflation from an open-economy perspective. It analyses how the inflation process is explained within the MMT framework and provides empirical evidence in support of this vision. However, it also makes use of a […]

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Is socialism back? A review of contemporary economic literature

The paper – written with André Pedersen Ystehede (Statistics Denmark) – deals with the recent resurgence of interest in the concept of “socialism” from an economic perspective. The most significant contemporary proposals for a new model of socialism are surveyed across five major thematic areas: socialism as a voluntary endeavour […]

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