For a New Political Economy : : Volume 21 / / Bernard Lonergan; ed. by Philip McShane.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Lonergan, Bernard,
• MitwirkendeR: Crowe, Frederick E.,; McShane, Philip J.,
• HerausgeberIn: McShane, Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

Bernard Lonergan's economic writings span forty years and represent one of the most important intellectual achievements of the twentieth century. Unfortunately they have been inaccessible outside of the Lonergan research community as the majority of them have not been formally published, and exist only as a group of unfinished essays and material for courses on economics taught by Lonergan. The publication of For a New Political Economy, along with its companion volume, Macroeconomic Dynamics: An Essay in Circulation Analysis (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 15), seeks to remedy this by bringing together the various elements of Lonergan's economic thought. Lonergan's concept of economics differs radically from that of contemporary economists and represent a major paradigm shift. He takes a fresh look at fundamental variables and breaks from centralist theory and practice, offering a uniquely democratic perspective on surplus income and non-political control. For a New Political Economy is a collection of drafts, notes, and essays written by Lonergan in the 1940s on various aspects of economics. This volume provides the intellectual underpinnings of ideas more fully explored in Macroeconomic Dynamics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Editors' Preface -- Editor's Introduction -- PART ONE: FOR A NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY -- 1. Why? What? How? -- 2. The Pure Process -- 3. Transition to Exchange Economy -- 4. Outline of the Mechanical Structure of the Exchange Process -- 5. Equilibria of the Mechanical Structure -- 6. Incidental Theorems -- PART TWO: FRAGMENTS , 1942-1944 -- 7. An Outline of Circulation Analysis -- 8. A Method of Independent Circulation Analysis -- 9. Circulation Trends -- 10. Circuit Velocities -- 11. Prices, Costs, Profits -- 12. Prices, Demand, Supply -- 13. Superposed Circuits -- 14. Random Pointers -- PART THREE: CIRCULATION ANALYSIS -- 15. The Productive Process -- 16. Monetary Flows -- 17. Accelerations, Cycles, Phases -- 18. Cycles of Incomes and Prices -- 19. Superposed Circuits -- Appendix: The Date of 'For a New Political Economy' -- Index