Hyman Minsky

Tags: Economist.

Hyman Philip Minsky (September 23 1919 – October 24 1996) was an American economist a professor of economics at Washington University in St. Louis and a distinguished scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. His research attempted to provide an understanding and explanation of the characteristics of financial crises which he attributed to swings in a potentially fragile financial system.

alma mater

Harvard University, University of Chicago, Doctor of Philosophy

birth date

1919-09-23

birth place

Chicago

death date

1996-10-24

death place

Rhinebeck (village) New York

field

Macroeconomics

influenced

Paul Krugman, Laurence Meyer, Steve Keen, Lars Pålsson Syll, Paul McCulley, Stephany Griffith-Jones

influenced by

Joseph Schumpeter, Irving Fisher, Wassily Leontief, Abba P. Lerner, John Maynard Keynes, Michał Kalecki, Henry Calvert Simons

nationality

United States