Michal Kalecki
By: Julio López G. and Michaël Assous
Contributors: Assous, Michaël, 1975-
Series: Great thinkers in economics series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781403999375
Subjects: Development economics; Economists; Biography; Keynesian economics; Capitalism
Description: This book examines the life and work of the extraordinary Polish economist, Michal Kalecki. It discusses Kalecki's theory of the capitalist economy, and provides a thorough guided tour through his published works, including his important writings on the economics of underdeveloped countries. Kalecki's ideas received wide international recognition during the period when Keynesianism predominated in the economic landscape. In the early 1930s, Kalecki anticipated many aspects of the principle of effective demand that later John Maynard Keynes put forward in his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. This book commemorates Kalecki's originality, and great contribution to economics. The book is co-authored by a former student of Kalecki. It includes original notes taken from Kalecki's courses, which up till now have never been published. This book is indispensable reading for all interested in the history of economic thought.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-254) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Michal Kalecki's life and work; title: Kalecki's theory of profits and output; title: Genesis and originality of Kalecki's theory; title: The theory of prices and income distribution; title: Kalecki's long-run theory of effective demand : the trend and business cycles; title: Kalecki's macroeconomics of public finance and of monetary policy; title: Kalecki's open economy macroeconomics; title: Michal Kalecki : a pioneer of development economics; title: Kalecki : the socialist economist; title: Michal Kalecki's intellectual legacy.