The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist [electronic resource] : Cambridge Harvest /
Harcourt, G.author.
The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest gathers up the threads of the last decade of the author's twenty eight years in Cambridge, before his return to Australia. The essays include autobiography, theory, review articles, surveys, policy, intellectual biographies and tributes, and general essays.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest; Part I Autobiographical Essay; 1 'Horses for Courses': The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist (1999); Part II Theoretical Essays; 2 The Debates on the Representative Firm and Increasing Returns: Then and Now (2007); 3 Paul Samuelson on Karl Marx: Were the Sacrificed Games of Tennis Worth It? (2006); 4 Capital-Reversing and Reswitching (2009); 5 Whatever Happened to the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies? (2003)
6 The Relevance of the Cambridge-Cambridge Controversies in Capital Theory for Econometric Practice (2007)7 The Harrod Model of Growth and Some Early Reactions to It (2006); 8 On Mark Perlman and Joseph Schumpeter: Their Respective Approaches to Evolutionary Economics and the History of Economic Theory (2004); Part III Review Articles; 9 Monsters and Morals: Reviewing David Jenkins, Markets Whys and Human Wherefores. Thinking again about Markets, Politics and People, 2000 (2002); 10 On Paul Krugman on Maynard Keynes's General Theory (2008); Part IV Surveys
11 Joan Robinson and Her Circle (2005)12 The Cambridge Economic Tradition (2003); Part V Policy; 13 New Labour and Constitutional Reform: Why not Introduce Compulsory Voting in all Elections? (2000); 14 The Economic Policies of Gordon Brown and the Treasury: Stability for What? (2001); 15 Chickens Coming Home to Roast (2003); Part VI Intellectual Biographies and Tributes; 16 The Vital Contributions of John Cornwall to Economic Theory and Policy: A Tribute from Two Admiring Friends on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (1999)
17 Wilfred Edward Graham Salter, 27 March 1929-10 November 1963 (2007)18 Peter Karmel: A Tribute (2009); 19 John Richard Wells, 1947-1999 (1999); 20 Second Address at the Memorial Gathering for Alister Sutherland, Trinity College, 30 October 2004 (2004); Part VII General Essays; 21 'Despised and Rejected' (1995); 22 Speech to Commerce Graduates at the University of Melbourne (2003); Index
Includes index.
The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest gathers up the threads of the last decade of the author's twenty eight years in Cambridge, before his return to Australia. The essays include autobiography, theory, review articles, surveys, policy, intellectual biographies and tributes, and general essays.
Harcourt, G. C. (Geoffrey Colin), 1931-
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