Basil Moore is responding to the following questions:

How did you come to economics?

Who were the economists that impressed you most?

How did you get involved with the American and UK post-Keynesianism and how did you yourself become a post-Keynesian?

The book of yours most quoted is "Horizontalists and Verticalists. The Macroeconomics of Credit-money". It is a milestone of post-Keynesian monetary economics and initiated a huge debate between Horizontalists and Structuralists. Could you describe your early views in this debate and, from the perspective we have today, whether there is any convergence within post-Keynesian monetary economics?

Is this complexity issue the distinguishing feature of your latest book, Shaking the Invisible Hand, compared with Horizontalists and Verticalists?

Can we relate your theoretical insights to economic policy and the situation in South Africa? You have been living there for several years.