"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)美国经济学家、金融论的开创者，是当代研究金融危机的权威。他的“金融不稳定性假说”是金融领域的经典理论之一，并被人们不断完善和讨论。他所坚持的“金融不稳定性假说”认为，资本主义的本性决定了金融体系的不稳定，金融危机及其对经济运行的危害难以避免。他是第一位提出不确定性、风险及金融市场如何影响经济的经济学家。他在华盛顿大学执教25年，是巴德学院利维经济研究所的杰出学者。