Economic crisis and political economy: essay in honour of Tadeusz Kowalik (Vol. 2)

Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Michal Kalecki made important contributions to twentieth century political economy that guided the thinking of their student Tadeusz Kowalik. A wide range of contributors to this volume, including Alberto Chilosi, Gary Dymski, John King, Mario Nuti, Alessandro Vercelli, Kazimierz Laski, Leon Podkaminer, Edwin Le Heron, Malcolm Sawyer, Janusz Tomidajewicz, Pat Devine, Paul Mattick, Marc Lavoie, Paul Auerbach and Dimitris Sotiropoulos, examine how the ideas of Luxemburg, Lange, Kalecki and Kowalik, from finance to macroeconomics, the business cycle and the possibilities of Keynesian stabilisation, to illuminate our understanding of the crisis in twenty-first century capitalism.