Book review: Why Minsky matters, by L. Randall Wray, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2015, £19.95 hardback, 288 pp. 9780691159126

Yes, Minsky does matter! He had an extraordinarily acute understanding of the interactions between banking, and finance more generally, on one side and the real economy on the other. As the author parades Minsky’s monetary analysis, partly in well-chosen quotations, I was continuously struck by the freshness, even when several decades have elapsed since his death in 1996, and the originality of his monetary analysis