ABSTRACT
Providing a contemporary overview of the debate amongst theoretical stands in economics, this book brings together contributions from a number of eminent scholars. It covers important issues in methodology and the history of thought, as well as economic analysis. The book is structured in five parts which:focus on the relevance of the history of ec
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
part |2 pages
PART I Economic theory and its history
chapter |6 pages
The relevance of the economic ideas of the past
part |2 pages
PART II The classical school and the Ricardo debate
chapter |13 pages
Sraffa: the theoretical world of the ‘old classical economists’
chapter |17 pages
Misunderstanding classical economics
The Sraffian interpretation of the surplus approach
chapter |5 pages
Misunderstanding the Sraffian reading of the classical theory of value and distribution
A note
chapter |3 pages
Is it possible to define a canonical classical growth model?
chapter |10 pages
Garegnani’s interpretation of the ‘old classical economists’
chapter |10 pages
Some reflections on Sraffa’s Ricardo
part |2 pages
PART III Models of prices and allocations in equilibrium and out of equilibrium
chapter |36 pages
Models of monopolistic competition and general equilibrium theory
chapter |3 pages
Non-competitive general equilibrium in a dynamic perspective
chapter |7 pages
Technology and employment in an out-of-equilibrium perspective
part |2 pages
PART IV The legacy of Keynes
chapter |31 pages
Keynes on probability, uncertainty and tragic choices
chapter |4 pages
Was Keynes a truly heretic economist?
chapter |16 pages
Keynes, disequilibrium theory and New Keynesian economics
chapter |6 pages
Keynesian economics from a non-price theoretic framework
chapter |20 pages
The controversies in contemporary macroeconomics
part |2 pages
PART V Economic theorising and institutions
chapter |9 pages
Economic theory and institutions
chapter |6 pages
Economics and institutions from a central bank perspective
chapter |3 pages
Economics and institutions: some reflections on
Some reflections on Pasinetti and Caravale
