"Today, Mr. Minsky's view [of economics] is more relevant than ever."- The New York Times "Indeed, the Minsky moment has become a fashionable catch phrase on Wall Street."-The Wall Street Journal John Maynard Keynes offers a timely reconsideration of the work of the revered economics icon. Hyman Minsky argues that what most economists consider Keynesian economics is at odds with the major points of Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Keynes and Minsky refuse to ignore pervasive uncertainty. Once uncertainty is given center stage, recurring episodes of financial system crises are all but inescapable. As Robert Barbera notes in a new preface, "Benign economic circumstances!invite increasingly aggressive financial market wagers. Innovation in finance is a signature development in a capitalist economy. Once leveraged wagers are in place, small disappointments can have exaggerated consequences." Thus for Minsky economic calm on Main Street engenders financial system fragility which, in turn, ensures a perpetuation of boom and bust cycles. Minsky colleagues Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray write in a new introduction, "We offer this new edition, in the hope that it will contribute to the reformation of economic theory so that it can address the world in which we actually live-the world that was always the topic of Minsky's analysis."

海曼·P.明斯基(Hyman P.Minskv)美國經濟學傢、金融論的開創者，是當代研究金融危機的權威。他的“金融不穩定性假說”是金融領域的經典理論之一，並被人們不斷完善和討論。他所堅持的“金融不穩定性假說”認為，資本主義的本性決定瞭金融體係的不穩定，金融危機及其對經濟運行的危害難以避免。他是第一位提齣不確定性、風險及金融市場如何影響經濟的經濟學傢。他在華盛頓大學執教25年，是巴德學院利維經濟研究所的傑齣學者。