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Overview

Eckhard Hein is affiliated with the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Germany. Their research spans extensive work in economics, econometrics, and finance as well as social sciences, with a particular focus on economic theory and policy, political economy and Marxism, and housing, finance, and neoliberalism.

The researcher's main subfields of study include general economics, econometrics and finance, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, and finance. Their primary topics of work cover economic theory and policy, political economy and Marxism, economic theories and models, economic theory and institutions, the global financial crisis and policies, and monetary policy and economic impact.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Welfare models and demand-led growth regimes before and after the financial and economic crisis" (2020, Review of International Political Economy)
  • "Demand and growth regimes in finance-dominated capitalism and the role of the macroeconomic policy regime: a post-Keynesian comparative study on France, Germany, Italy and Spain before and after the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession" (2021, Review of Evolutionary Political Economy)
  • "Stability issues in Kaleckian models driven by autonomous demand growth-Harrodian instability and debt dynamics" (2020, Metroeconomica)
  • "Financialisation and Macroeconomic Regimes in Emerging Capitalist Countries Before and After the Great Recession" (2022, International Journal of Political Economy)
  • "The Eurozone in Crisis - A Kaleckian Macroeconomic Regime and Policy Perspective" (2020, Review of Political Economy)

Frequent coauthors in their collaborative work include:

  • Franz Josef Prante
  • Alessandro Bramucci
  • Ryan Woodgate
  • Benjamin Jungmann
  • Ümit Akçay

They have published in several academic venues, with repeated contributions to the European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies Intervention, the Review of Political Economy, the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, the International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, and the Review of International Political Economy.

Their book publication with Edward Elgar Publishing is titled Macroeconomics after Kalecki and Keynes (2023).

Best Publications

  • Distribution and growth reconsidered: empirical results for six OECD countries

    Eckhard Hein;Lena Vogel

  • The Macroeconomics of Finance-Dominated Capitalism - and Its Crisis

    Eckhard Hein

  • Distribution and Growth after Keynes: A Post-Keynesian Guide

    Eckhard Hein

  • Finance-dominated capitalism and re-distribution of income: a Kaleckian perspective.

    Eckhard Hein

  • Distribution, aggregate demand and productivity growth: theory and empirical results for six OECD countries based on a post-Kaleckian model

    Eckhard Hein;Artur Tarassow

  • Globalization and the effects of changes in functional income distribution on aggregate demand in Germany

    Engelbert Stockhammer;Eckhard Hein;Lucas Grafl

  • Some instability puzzles in Kaleckian models of growth and distribution: a critical survey

    Eckhard Hein;Marc Lavoie;Till van Treeck

  • Interest rate debt distribution and capital accumulation in a post-Kaleckian model

    Eckhard Hein

  • ‘Financialisation’ in Post-Keynesian Models of Distribution and Growth: A Systematic Review

    Eckhard Hein;Till van Treeck

  • European Monetary Union: nominal convergence, real divergence and slow growth?

    Eckhard Hein;Achim Truger

  • Money, Distribution Conflict and Capital Accumulation: Contributions to 'Monetary Analysis'

    Eckhard Hein

  • Macroeconomic Policy Mix, Employment and Inflation in a Post-Keynesian Alternative to the New Consensus Model

    Eckhard Hein;Engelbert Stockhammer

  • Interest rates, distribution and capital accumulation – A post-Kaleckian perspective on the US and Germany

    Eckhard Hein;Christian Schoder

  • The crisis of finance-dominated capitalism in the euro area, deficiencies in the economic policy architecture, and deflationary stagnation policies

    Eckhard Hein

  • HARRODIAN INSTABILITY AND THE ‘NORMAL RATE’ OF CAPACITY UTILIZATION IN KALECKIAN MODELS OF DISTRIBUTION AND GROWTH-A SURVEY: Harrodian Instability in Kaleckian Models

    Eckhard Hein;Marc Lavoie;Till van Treeck

  • Interest, Debt and Capital Accumulation—A Kaleckian Approach

    Eckhard Hein

  • Distribution and Growth after Keynes

    Eckhard Hein

  • Financialisation and Rising Shareholder Power in Kaleckian/Post-Kaleckian Models of Distribution and Growth

    Eckhard Hein;Till Van Treeck

  • Monetary policy and wage bargaining in the EMU: restrictive ECB policies, high unemployment, nominal wage restraint and inflation above the target

    Eckhard Hein

  • Finance-dominated capitalism in crisis: The case for a Global Keynesian New Deal

    Eckhard Hein;Achim Truger

  • Welfare models and demand-led growth regimes before and after the financial and economic crisis

    Eckhard Hein;Walter Paternesi Meloni;Pasquale Tridico

Frequent Co-Authors

Engelbert Stockhammer
Engelbert Stockhammer King's College London
Marc Lavoie
Marc Lavoie University of Ottawa
Hans-Werner Sinn
Hans-Werner Sinn Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Philip Arestis
Philip Arestis University of Cambridge

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