Full Description
This work, originally published in 1992, reflects Geoff Harcourt's contribution to economic debate over more than three decades. Included are papers which are recognized as some of the foundations of post-Keynesian economics, analysing problems set in historical time and starting from 'real world' observations. In keeping with the author's sense that the purpose of economics is 'to make the world a better place for ordinary men and women' the essays included in the volume are shown to amount to a coherent set of policy proposals.
Contents
Part I Issues in post-Keynesian economics 1. The accountant in a Golden Age (1965) 2. Investment-decision criteria, investment incentives and the choice of technique (1968) 3. Pricing and hte investment decision (1976) 4. A critique of Mr Kaldor's model of income distribution and economic growth (1963) 5. A two-sector model of the distribution of income and the level of employment in the short run (1965) Part II The capital theory controversies 6. Decline and rise: the revival of (classical) political economy (1975) 7. The Cambridge controversies: old ways and new horizons - or dead end? (1976) 8.Non-neoclassical capital theory (1979) Part III Surveys of approaches to economic theory 9. Reflections on the development of economics as a discipline (1948) 10. Post-Keynesianism: from criticism to coherence (1988) Part IV Theoretical Methods 11. The legacy of Keynes: theoretical methods and unfinished buisness (1987) 12. Marshall, Sraffa, and Keynes: incompatible bed fellows? (1981) 13. Marshall's Principles as seen at Cambridge through the eyes of Gerald Shove, Dennis Robertson and Joan Robinson Part V 14. Making socialism in your own country Part VI Intellectual biographies 15. On the contributions of Joan Robinson and Pierro Sraffa to economic theory (1990) 16. Nicholas Kaldor, 1908-86 (1988) 17. R.F. Kahn, 1905-89 (1991) 18. Eric Russell, 1921-77: a great Australian political economist (1977) 19. Lorie Tarshis: an early post-Keynesian or, Tarshis on Tarshis by Harcourt (1982) 20. Kenneth Boulding: a man for all systems (1983) 21. Richard Goodwin: a twentieth-century eclectic (1985)
