From 25 – 30 July the 8th FMM International Summer School took place in Berlin. About 35 graduate students (MA and PhD) and junior researchers came together for the summer school that aimed at providing an introduction to Keynesian macroeconomics and to the problems of European economics. It consisted of overview lectures, student study groups, an SFC lab and a panel discussion about “Return of the Active State?”. It featured leading international researchers in the area of Keynesian Macroeconomics, including Robert Blecker (US), Yannis Dafermos (UK), Sebastian Gechert (Germany), Eckhard Hein (Germany), Heike Joebges (Germany), Marc Lavoie (France/Canada), Maria Nikolaidi (UK), Miriam Rehm (Austria/Germany), Mark Setterfield (US) and Till van Treeck (Germany) covering the following areas:
 

• History and Fundamentals of Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics
• Money and Macroeconomics
• Cryptoassets and financial stability
• Distribution and Growth
• Income and Wealth Inequality
• Comparative Political Economy
• Money and Development
• Stock-Flow Consistent Modelling
• Economic Policy

Marc Lavoie, University of Ottawa, Canada
History and Fundamentals of Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics (pdf)

Eckhard Hein, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
Money and Macroeconomics (pdf)

Heike Joebges, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin, Germany
Cryptoassets and financial stability (pdf)

Mark Setterfield, New School for Social Research, US
Distribution and Growth (pdf)

Miriam Rehm, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Income and Wealth Inequality (pdf)

Robert Blecker, American University, US
International and Development Economics (pdf)

Till van Treeck, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Comparative Political Economy (pdf)

Yannis Dafermos, SOAS University of London, UK
Maria Nikolaidi, University of Greenwich, UK
Stock-Flow Consistent Modelling: Macro and the Environment (pdf)

Sebastian Gechert, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Economic Policy (pdf)