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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sardoni, Claudio.

Kriesler, Peter.

Harcourt, G. C. (Geoffrey Colin), 1931-

Series:

Essays in honour of Geoff Harcourt ; v. 3.

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 22.

Essays in honour of Geoff Harcourt ; v. 3

Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harcourt, G. C. (Geoffrey Colin), 1931-.

Harcourt, G. C.

Keynesian economics.

Economics--Methodology.

Economics.

Economics--History.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (562 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-429-23180-6

1-134-82597-8

1-280-31968-2

0-203-43827-2

0-203-28348-1

9780429231803

OCLC:

560062532