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A history of post Keynesian economics since 1936 / J.E. King.

Lippincott Library HB99.7.K38 K56 2002
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
King, J. E. (John Edward)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Keynesian economics--History.
Keynesian economics.
Economics--History--20th century.
Economics.
History.
Physical Description:
vii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2002]
Contents:
1 First reactions to The General Theory 12
One, two, many General Theories 12
Keynes in general equilibrium 15
The first Post Keynesians 18
Teaching versions of The General Theory 25
Keynes has second thoughts 30
2 An economist from Poland 35
Kalecki before Keynes 35
The impact of The General Theory 39
The 1939 Essays 42
Kalecki's war 46
Kalecki and the 'Left Keynesians' 49
A Kaleckian synthesis? 53
3 Generalizing The General Theory 56
Mr Harrod's equation 56
Early reactions to Harrod 59
The Accumulation of Capital 64
Alternative theories of distribution 67
After 1956 71
History versus equilibrium 77
4 Those Cambridge controversies 79
First light 79
The Accumulation of Capital revisited 85
Mr Sraffa's Production of Commodities 90
The Cambridge controversies 95
The end of the affair? 100
5 Outside Cambridge: the first US Post Keynesians 103
In the beginning 103
Sidney Weintraub, Jevonian seditionist 105
Hyman Minsky, hedgehog 110
Paul Davidson: money and the real world 114
6 Against the mainstream: Post Keynesian economics in the 1970s 121
The battle of the paradigms 121
Joan Robinson: New Orleans and after 123
The reconstruction of political economy 125
The failure of the new paradigm 132
What are the questions? 136
7 Economic heresy around the world 139
The globalization of economics 139
Australia 141
Austria 145
Canada 149
France 152
Italy 155
The Americanization of dissent 159
8 Money and the monetarists 161
Hamlet without the prince? 161
The scourge of monetarism 165
Back to Keynes 172
Horizontalists and verticalists 174
Cashed up or wiped out? 179
9 Uncertainty, expectations and method 181
Keynes the philosopher 181
Uncertainty, rationality and expectations 184
The incubus of equilibrium 189
The methodology of Post Keynesian economics 192
The real critique of critical realism 197
10 Keynes, Kalecki, Sraffa: coherence? 203
From criticism to coherence? 203
Anti-Keynes 206
Anti-Sraffa 209
Anti-Kalecki 211
The synthesizers 214
From coherence to criticism? 219
11 Post Keynesians and other deviants 221
Border conflicts 221
Radicals and Marxists 223
Institutionalists 225
Austrians 229
New Keynesians 233
12 A promise that bounced? 240
On Whigs and marketing managers 240
The three philosophers 246
Alternative futures 255.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-298) and indexes.
ISBN:
1840644206
OCLC:
47915738

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