The ideas and results in this book represent the culmination of a research project aimed at exploring macroeconomic issues moving from premises alternative to those employed by the current mainstream. The nickname informally assigned to the project – CATS – was originally chosen to honour two members of the research group (DDG and MG), as that was the way the lamented Hyman Minsky once baptised them because of an allegedly common zoological root in their family names. After (...)