Richard F. Kahn : Collected Economic Essays (Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought) （2022）

Marcuzzo, Maria Cristina (EDT)/ Paesani, Paolo (EDT)

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2022/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783030985875
• DDC分類 330.156

Full Description

This book brings together important essays by Richard F. Kahn, Keynes's pupil and literary executor and one of the most influential economists in the Cambridge tradition. The essays address issues, including imperfect competition, pricing mechanisms, inflation, unemployment, and the regulation of international trade and finance, that are highly relevant and topical They are addressed from a Keynesian perspective, with the interface between economic theory and policy explored. With the inclusion of a new introduction, the essays are placed in their own context and offer the key to understand their relevance for the present.

Richard F. Kahn: Collected Economic Essays is a fitting companion to the 1972 collection of essays, edited by Kahn himself. It will be of interest to scholars and students as a key to an outstanding economist and a great figure in the Keynesian tradition.

Contents

1 Introduction.- Part I Imperfect Competition.- 2 Imperfect Competition and the Marginal Principle.- 3 The Problem of Duopoly.- 4 Oxford Studies in the Price Mechanism.- Part II Keynes.- 5 The Cambridge 'Circus'.- 6 Some Aspects of the Development of Keynes's Thought.- 7 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money'.- Part III International Money and Trade.- 8 International Regulation of Trade and Exchanges.- 9 The International Monetary System.- 10 Historical Origins of the International Monetary Fund.- Part IV Unemployment and Inflation.- 11 Unemployment as seen by the Keynesians.- 12 Thoughts on the Behaviour of Wages and Monetarism.- 13 Inflation—A Keynesian View.