Forums, users…

I am still testing this website, and there may be changes in the next few weeks.
Discussions are supposed to take place in the Forum section, and the software I adopted organizes forums by groups, so you should be part of a group if you want to contribute.
New messages in a forum are not reported in the main section, so check the forums page if you are interested.

We are already having “spam users” registering, who will be deleted. If you find your account deleted, please contact me.
Any suggestions for improving the web site are more than welcome!

An introduction to empirical SFC modeling

For who is interested in empirical stock-flow-consistent models, I prepared some Eviews programs with comments, which can be downloaded from my teaching platform here.
Register, and request enrollment to the course “Intoduction to macroeconometric models”

The Fifth “Dijon” Post-Keynesian Conference

13-14th of May 2011 | Université de Bourgogne, Roskilde and Aalborg University

On the 75th year anniversary of The General Theory, this year’s conference themes are:

1. The (Macro) economic Consequences of:
• European Monetary System
• European banks and financial institutions
• European labor markets: unemployment, employment and income distribution
• European fiscal policies: Employment, income distribution and budget deficits
• European Environment and economic growth
2. The General Theory after 75 years:
• Keynes’ methodology
• Keynes’s macroeconomic theory as different from mainstream economics in all areas of relevance
3. Teaching Keynes’s macroeconomics:
• How to teach Keynes’s macroeconomics?
• What to do when textbooks are lacking?

Proposals for a full session and/or for individual papers within these topics are especially welcome.
They could either have a mainly political perspective related to the actual crises in Europe or they might focus on theoretical dimension, how to make a macroeconomic analysis in the spirit of the General Theory. Within the latter category we think that a special session commemorating the original contributions by the late Wynne Godley would be timely.
Submission should be send to professor Jesper Jespersen jesperj@ruc.dk not later than 1st February 2011.

The organizing committee consists of:
Jesper Jespersen, Roskilde Universitet
Mogens Ove Madsen, Aalborg Universitet
Louis-Philippe Rochon, Laurentian University
Claude Gnos, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon

For more information on the conference visit the official web site or download the call for papers.

Hello world!

This web project started from an idea of Marc Lavoie.

It is meant to be a collaborative project on building theoretical and empirical stock-flow-consistent models in economics, and it is open to the contribution of anyone who is interested.