Microeconomics, macroeconomics and economic policy
Subtitle: essays in honour of Malcolm Sawyer
By: edited by Philip Arestis
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillian
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780230290198
Subjects: Microeconomics; Macroeconomics; Economic policy
Description: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy are at the core of research and study in economics. The essays in this volume have been specifically commissioned and brought together to celebrate the work of Malcolm Sawyer, who has made substantial contributions in these areas. The chapters explore important questions including 'Is There a Role for Active Fiscal Policies?' and 'Regulating Wall Street' as well as offering critical appraisals and original discussions of these three key areas of economic thought.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Malcolm Sawyer : an appreciation / Philip Arestis; title: The function of firms : alternative views / Nina Shapiro; title: Industrial structure and the macro-economy / Keith Cowling and Philip Tomlinson; title: Unemployment, power relations, and the quality of work / David Spencer; title: The problem of young people not in employment, education or training : is there a neet solution? / John McCombie and Maureen Pike; title: The business of macro imbalances : comparing 'gluts' in savings, money and profits / William Milberg and Lauren Schmitz; title: A critical appraisal of the new consensus macroeconomics / Philip Arestis; title: Bringing together the horizontalist and the structuralist analyses of endogenous money / Giuseppe Fontana; title: Economic growth and income distribution : Kalecki, the Kaleckians and their critics / Amitava Krishna Dutt; title: The influence of Kalecki on Joan Robinson's approach to economics / Geoff Harcourt and Peter Kriesler; title: Shared ideas amid mutual incomprehension : Kalecki and Cambridge / Jan Toporowski; title: Is there a role for active fiscal policies? : supply-side and demand-side effects of fiscal policies / Jesus Ferreiro, Teresa Garcia del Valle, Carmen Gomez and Felipe Serrano; title: Fiscal policy and private investment in Mexico / Emilio Caballero and Julio López; title: A Keynes-Kalecki model of cyclical growth with agent-based features / Mark Setterfield and Andrew Budd; title: Unsurprising to Keynes, shocking to economists : the normalization of capital controls in the global financial crisis / Ilene Grabel; title: Regulating Wall Street : exploring the political economy of the possible / Gerald Epstein and Robert Pollin.