Revisiting Classical Economics (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) - Softcover

Kurz, Heinz; Salvadori, Neri

 
9780367669423: Revisiting Classical Economics (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367669420 ISBN 13: 9780367669423
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

The financial crisis and the economic crisis that followed triggered a crisis in the subject of economics, as it is typically being taught today especially in macroeconomics and related fields. A renewed interest in earlier authors, especially the classical economists from Adam Smith to David Ricardo and John Maynard Keynes, developed. This book may also be seen as a response to this interest. What can we learn from the authors mentioned, what we could not learn from the mainstream?

This volume contains a selection of essays which deepens and widens the understanding of the classical approach to important problems, such as value and distribution, growth and technical progress, and exhaustible natural resources. It is the fourth collection in a row and reflects an on-going discussion of the fecundity of the classical approach.

A main topic of the essays is a comparison between the classical approaches with modern theory and thus an identification of what can be learned by elaborating on the ideas of Smith and Ricardo and Marx above and beyond and variously in contradiction to certain mainstream view. Since the work of Piero Sraffa spurred the revival of classical economic thought, his contributions are dealt with in some detail. The attention then focuses on economic growth and the treatment of exhaustible resources within a classical framework of the analysis.

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About the Author

Heinz D. Kurz is Professor of Economics at the University of Graz, Austria, and Chairman of the Graz Schumpeter Centre.

Neri Salvadori is Professor of Economics at the University of Pisa, Italy, and Chairman of CISCE (Centro Ineruniversitario per lo Studio sulla Crescita e lo Sviluppo Economico).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367669420
ISBN 13 
9780367669423
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
326

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