Keynes, Post-Keynesianism and Political Economy

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations ix
• Foreword xvii
• Introduction xix
• Note xxi
• Part I - History of Political Economy and Methodology 1
• 1 - Manufacturing the Smithian Paradox of Value 3
• 2 - The Ricardo-Malthus Debate 23
• 3 - Cassel on Cyclical Growth 42
• 4 - Alfred Marshall and Evangelicalism 68
• Notes 87
• References 91
• 5 - Dissenting Economists 94
• Notes 107
• 6 - Liquidity Preference 110

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Illustrations ix
• Foreword xvii
• Introduction xix
• Note xxi
• Part I - History of Political Economy and Methodology 1
• 1 - Manufacturing the Smithian Paradox of Value 3
• 2 - The Ricardo-Malthus Debate 23
• 3 - Cassel on Cyclical Growth 42
• 4 - Alfred Marshall and Evangelicalism 68
• Notes 87
• References 91
• 5 - Dissenting Economists 94
• Notes 107
• 6 - Liquidity Preference 110
• 7 - Dentists, Dreamers and Defunct Economists 130
• 8 - Keynes’s Socialism 149
• 9 - On Some Arguments for the Rationality of Conventional Behaviour under Uncertainty 176
• 10 - Keynes on Rationality, Expectations and Investment 196
• 11 - Keynes’ Common-Sense Economics 214
• 12 - Scientific Communities, Language and the Keynesian Revolution 229
• 13 - Situational Analysis and Agent Rationality 244
• 14 - The Debate on Excess Capacity in the 1930s 259
• 15 - Cantabrigian Preferences 284
• 16 - Reading Marx 295
• 17 - Joan Robinson 312
• Part II - Economic Theory and Applied Analysis 335
• 18 - The Cambridge Theory of Distribution in the Short Period 337
• 19 - The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policy 356
• References 367
• 20 - Unemployment Hysteresis in an Open Economy 368
• Notes 381
• 21 - How Manufacturing Can Help Young People to Get High-Wage Jobs 385
• 22 - Harcourt, Hicks and Lowe 400
• 23 - Technological Progress and Effective Demand 418
• 24 - Lighthouses, Television and the Theory of Public Goods 433
• 25 - Repetition, Evolution and Learning in Games 450
• 26 - A Modified Trend through Peaks Approach to Measuring Potential Output 471
• 27 - The Wage-Wage Spiral and Wage Determination 486
• 28 - Disaggregated Import Demand Functions for the Italian Economy 510
• Index 527