Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: -- The supra-surplus society -- Unconventional wisdom; economics and the tradition of scarcity -- Malthus, ricardo, and normal expectations -- Post great recession expectations -- The necessary economy : sraffa's neo-ricardian view -- The kaleckian income distribution -- Beyond subsistence -- Demand and engel's law -- Supra-surplus capitalism : the mark-up - kalecki -- The mark-up - john kenneth galbraith -- Kaleckian power and the lerner index -- The importance of the vita theory -- Stagnation and innovation -- International implications -- The casino economy : at inception -- A business and household net worth approach -- Banking and finance, at home and abroad -- The casino effect of T -- Minsky and financial fragility models -- The new distributions of income and wealth -- Policies : the zero-interest-rate society -- The rehabilitation of fiscal policy, at home and abroad -- A transactions tax on wealth -- The death of the business cycle -- Conclusions.