Interest and Profit / Christopher Dougherty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dougherty, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1980]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Assess the state of informal capital theory, focusing on the issue of what determines the rate of profit in a modern market economy and comparing the Fisherian tradition with the leading alternatives.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 The aggregate neoclassical approach

3 Time preference, profit and interest

4 Extensions of the Fisherian model

5 Taxation

6 Public investment criteria

7 Critique of Fisher

8 The equilibration of saving and investment in the short and long run

9 Non-neoclassical theories I Kalecki

10 Non-neoclassical theories II Kaldor and Pasinetti

11 Non-neoclassical theories III Wood

12 The present state of the controversy

Bibliography

Index of names

Index of subjects

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88455-9

OCLC:

1100435321