Modern Economic Thought

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Modern Economic Thought

Edited by: Sidney Weintraub

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1977

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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"Up-to-date coverage of the historical development and principal theoretical positions of 'modern' economics, edited by an economist known for his broad erudition."--Wilson Quarterly "I strongly, indeed enthusiastically, endorse the book"--John Kenneth Galbraith

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
I. From Marshall to Modernity
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1. Neoclassicism and Dissent, 1890–1925 Ingrid Η. Rima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
2. New Tracks for Economic Theory, 1926–1939 C. L. S. Shackle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
II. Keynesianism
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3. Hicksian Keynesianism: Dominance and Decline Sidney Weintraub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
4. Keynesian Econometric Concepts: Consumption Functions, Investment Functions, and “The” Multiplier Ronald G. Bodkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
5. Keynes’ Disequilibrium Theory of Employment Paul Wells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
III. Equilibrium Systems
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
6. General Equilibrium Theory E. Roy Weintraub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
7. Optimization and Game Theory E. Roy Weintraub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
8. Input-Output and Linear Programming Daniel A. Graham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
9. The Sraffian Revolution Alessandro Roncaclia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
IV. Microeconomics
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
10. Firms and Markets Oliver E. Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
11. Financial Theory of the Firm Douglas Vickers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
12. Demand Theory, Consumers’ Surplus, and Sovereignty Ivor F. Pearce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
V. Money
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
13. Monetarism Richard Τ. Selden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
14. Post-Keynes Monetary Theory and Inflation Paul Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
15. An “Economics of Keynes” Perspective on Money Hyman P. Minsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
16. Money Wage Inflation: The Endogeneity-Exogeneity Issue Michael L. Wachter and Susan M. Wachter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
VI. Growth
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17. Early Growth Theory: The Harrod-Domar Models Daniel Hamberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
18. Neoclassical Growth Models Karl Shell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
19. Post-Keynesian Growth Theory A. Asimakopulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
VII. Distribution Theory
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20. Ten Issues in Distribution Theory Martin Bronfenbrenner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
21. Some Post-Keynesian Distribution Theory J. A. Kregel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
VIII. Special Topics
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22. Welfare Economics: Or, When is a Change an Improvement ? Morgan Reynolds and Eugene Smolensky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
23. Ideology in Economics Warren J. Samuels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
24. Population: The Economics of the Long Run Richard A. Easterlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
25. Technology: More for Less? Morton I. Kamien and Nancy L. Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	501
26. International Economics Arthur I. Bloomfield and Wilfred Ethier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517
27. Development Economics Jere R. Behrman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	537
28. Radical Economics Eileen Appelbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	559
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	575

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