Verlag: Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, Basingstoke / New York, 1999
ISBN 10: 0333717945 ISBN 13: 9780333717943
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: Reifsnyder Books, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. xiii, 278 p.: ill.; 23 cm. This volume collects original contributions and research in economic theory and the political economy of unemployment and inflation. The essays, collected in honour of John Cornwall, demonstrate the importance of economic institutions for economic outcomes. Contents: John Cornwall.--List of Tables.--List of Figures.--List of Contributors.--Introduction / Mark Setterfield.--The Vital Contributions of John Cornwall to Economic Theory and Policy: A Tribute from Two Admiring Friends on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday / Geoff Harcourt, Mehdi Monadjemi.--Reflections on the Methodology and Practice of Economics.--Soros on 'Free Market' Equilibria / Rod Cross, Douglas Strachan.--Economics and Complexity / Basil Moore.--Modelling a Path-Dependent Economy: Lessons from John Cornwall's Macrodynamics / Mark Setterfield.--Post-Keynesianism and Institutionalism: Another Look at the Link / Geoff Hodgson.--Are Economists Social Scientists? / Villy Bergstrom.--Deregulation: The Anatomy of a Catchword / Kurt Rothschild.--Economic Growth in Theory and Practice.--'Modern Capitalism' in the 1970s and 1980s / Jan Fagerberg, Bart Verspagen.--A Problem with the Empirical Neoclassical Analysis of Multisector Growth / John McCombie.--Integration and Covergence in the European Union / Pascal Petit.--Kaldor's Growth Laws and the Principle of Cumulative Causation / Peter Skott.--Social Capital and the Economy / Shaun Hargreaves Heap.--The Political Economy of Unemployment and Inflation.--The Rise of Unemployment and Working Poverty: An Evolutionary Macroeconomic Perspective / John Foster.--A Post-Walrasian Explanation of Wage and Price Inflexibility and a Keynesian Unemployment Equilibrium System / David Colander.--Unemployment and Post-Keynesian Monetary Theory / Steven Pressman.