Stabilizing an unstable economy / Hyman P. Minsky ; [foreword by Henry Kaufman].

"First edition published in 1986 by Yale University Press"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Economic processes, behavior, and policy -- Economic experience: A deep recession but not a depression in 1975 : the impact of big government -- A deep recession but not a depression in 1975 : the impact of lender-of-last-resort intervention -- The emergence of financial instability in the postwar era -- Economic theory: Perspectives on theory -- The current standard theory : the after-Keynes synthesis -- Prices and profits in a capitalist economy -- Investment and finance -- Financial commitments and instability -- Institutional dynamics: Banking in a capitalist economy -- Inflation -- Policy: Introduction to policy -- An agenda for freedom.