My Intellectual Journey to Post-Keynesian Economics: 1. First, you study neoclassical macroeconomics at university and master its theoretical framework. 2. Then you try to apply what you’ve learned to explain real-world economic processes — and fail spectacularly. The theory exists in one world, economic reality in another. 3. Next, you turn to Marxism. Its intellectual depth, historical perspective, and literary elegance are compelling, but attempts to directly connect its theoretical categories to the System of National Accounts and the modern monetary and financial system prove rather difficult. 4. After years of searching, you finally discover Post-Keynesian economics, particularly stock-flow consistent models, where production, income, expenditure, debt, and financial assets finally come together within a coherent, macroeconomically consistent framework.