Post-Keynesian Economics (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, 332) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785363565 ISBN 13: 9781785363566

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

This three-volume collection offers a comprehensive overview and discussion of the seminal contributions by many prominent scholars in the heterodox tradition of post-Keynesian economic thought. The first volume presents various methodological issues, showing the contrast with orthodox thinking on fundamental grounds. The second volume focuses on credit, money and production, which are crucial to understanding the working of our economic systems. The final volume addresses several interrelated macroeconomic issues such as employment, distribution, growth, development, asset bubbles, and financial crises. Together with an original introduction by the editors, this anthology provides a unique opportunity to appraise and appreciate the depth and variety of post-Keynesian economics at both theoretical and policy-oriented level.

123 articles, dating from 1960 to 2014

Contributors include: P. Arestis, P. Davidson, G. Fontana, A. Graziani, J. King, M. Lavoie, B. Moore, M. Sawyer, R. Skidelsky, E. Stockhammer

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Edited by Louis-Philippe Rochon, Full Professor of Economics, Laurentian University, Canada and Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics and Sergio Rossi, Full Professor of Economics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Review:

'With the neoclassical mainstream in disarray, this anthology on post-Keynesian economics is very timely, providing a great many building blocks to set up a coherent alternative. Articles on method are followed by contributions on fundamentals: credit, money, production, employment, and distribution. Fascinating themes are taken up: wage-led or profit-led economic growth, financialisation and asset bubbles, and international monetary architecture. The collection brings together the classical (Ricardian) tradition of political economy, revived by Sraffa, along with Keynes's theory of effective demand, complemented by endogenous money as Joan Robinson had suggested in the 1950s. To systematically realise this project amounts to working out a monetary theory of production as originally envisaged by Keynes in 1933.' --(Heinrich Bortis, University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1785363565
• ISBN 13: 9781785363566
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 2520
• Editor: Rochon Louis-Philippe, Rossi Sergio