Introduction

The introduction explains the objectives of the book and gives an overview over the following chapters. The first purpose of this book is to provide the foundations for post-Keynesian macroeconomics and a comprehensive post-Keynesian macroeconomic model with the respective macroeconomic policy mix, in order to achieve full employment and constant inflation and to avoid external imbalances. The second purpose is to embed these post-Keynesian macroeconomics and macroeconomic policies into the post-Keynesian research programme more generally. Finally, the third purpose is to present the application of these post-Keynesian macroeconomics in some recent areas of research, as on the macroeconomic regimes in finance-dominated capitalism, regime changes, growth drivers, stagnation tendencies and the role of macroeconomic policy regimes, as well as on the macroeconomic implications of the ecological constraints to growth.