Title: The making of a post-Keynesian economist : Cambridge harvest /
Authors: Harcourt, G. C. 1931-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Harcourt, G. C.; Harcourt, G. C.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Comparative.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory.; Economists Great Britain; Keynesian economics; Economics; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY General.; Economic theory & philosophy.; Political economy.; Economic history.; Macroeconomics.; Economics.; Economics; Economists; Keynesian economics
Abstract: "The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest gathers up the threads of the last decade of the author's 28 years in Cambridge. The essays include autobiography, theory, review articles, surveys, policy, intellectual biographies and tributes, and general essays"--
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY -- The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist -- PART II: THEORETICAL ESSAYS -- The Debates on the Representative Firm and Increasing Returns -- Paul Samuelson on Karl Marx -- 'Capital-reversing and Reswitching' -- Whatever Happened to the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies? -- The Relevance of the Cambridge-Cambridge Controversies in Capital Theory for Econometric Practice -- The Harrod Model of Growth and Some Early Reactions to it -- On Mark Perlman and Joseph Schumpeter -- PART III: REVIEW ARTICLES -- Monsters and Morals: Review of David Jenkins -- On Paul Krugman on Maynard Keynes' 'General Theory' -- PART IV: SURVEYS -- Joan Robinson and her Circle -- Cambridge Economic Tradition -- PART V: POLICY -- New Labour and Constitutional Reform -- The Economic Policies of Gordon Brown and the Treasury -- 'Chickens coming home to roost' -- PART VI: INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHIES AND TRIBUTES -- John Cornwall -- Wilfred Edward Graham Salter -- John Richard Wells -- Alister Sutherland -- PART VII: GENERAL ESSAYS -- 'Despised and Rejected' -- Speech to Commerce Graduates.