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Record Nr.

UNISA996262841303316

Titolo

Keynes, post-Keynesianism and political economy / / edited by Claudio Sardoni and Peter Kriesler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

0-429-23180-6

1-134-82597-8

1-280-31968-2

0-203-43827-2

0-203-28348-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (562 p.)

Collana

Essays in honour of Geoff Harcourt ; ; v. 3

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 22

Altri autori (Persone)

HarcourtGeoffrey Colin

KrieslerPeter

Disciplina

330.15

Soggetti

Keynesian economics

Economics - Methodology

Economics - History

Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction; History of political economy and methodology; Manufacturing the Smithian paradox of value; The Ricardo-Malthus debate: effective demand, technical change and the limits to growth; Cassel on cyclical growth; Alfred Marshall and evangelicalism; Dissenting economists: the late nineteenth-century Indian tradition; Liquidity preference: its origin; Dentists, dreamers and defunct economists: some reflections on English political economy between the wars

Keynes's socialism: conception, strategy and espousal On some arguments for the rationality of conventional behaviour under uncertainty: concepts, applicability and criticisms; Keynes on rationality, expectations and investment; Keynes' common-sense economics: a criticism of Coates' argument; Scientific communities,



language and the Keynesian revolution; Situational analysis and agent rationality: Shackle contra Popper; The debate on excess capacity in the 1930's; Cantabrigian preferences: Joan Robinson v. Frank Hahn; Reading Marx: Joan Robinson's essay on Marxian economics

Joan Robinson: a neglected precursor of internal migration models Economic theory and applied analysis; The Cambridge theory of distribution in the short period: an open economy approach; The political economy of macroeconomic policy; Unemployment hysteresis in an open economy; How manufacturing can help young people to get high-wage jobs; Harcourt, Hicks and Lowe: incompatible bedfellows?; Technological progress and effective demand: a Kaleckian perspective; Lighthouses, television and the theory of public goods; Repetition, evolution and learning in games: from equilibrium to open-endedness

A modified trend through peaks approach to measuring potential output: an application to the Italian economy The wage-wage spiral and wage determination: an empirical appraisal for Italy; Disaggregated import demand functions for the Italian economy; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Collected here are wide-ranging contributions to economics in general, and to post-Keynesian economics in particular by leading economists.