Modern Economic Thought / / ed. by Sidney Weintraub.

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 Ann...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:Anniversary Collection
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Physical Description:1 online resource (584 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. From Marshall to Modernity
  • Introduction
  • 1. Neoclassicism and Dissent, 1890-1925
  • 2. New Tracks for Economic Theory, 1926-1939
  • II. Keynesianism
  • Introduction
  • 3. Hicksian Keynesianism: Dominance and Decline
  • 4. Keynesian Econometric Concepts: Consumption Functions, Investment Functions, and "The" Multiplier
  • 5. Keynes' Disequilibrium Theory of Employment
  • III. Equilibrium Systems
  • Introduction
  • 6. General Equilibrium Theory
  • 7. Optimization and Game Theory
  • 8. Input-Output and Linear Programming
  • 9. The Sraffian Revolution
  • IV. Microeconomics
  • Introduction
  • 10. Firms and Markets
  • 11. Financial Theory of the Firm
  • 12. Demand Theory, Consumers' Surplus, and Sovereignty
  • V. Money
  • Introduction
  • 13. Monetarism
  • 14. Post-Keynes Monetary Theory and Inflation
  • 15. An "Economics of Keynes" Perspective on Money
  • 16. Money Wage Inflation: The Endogeneity-Exogeneity Issue
  • VI. Growth
  • Introduction
  • 17. Early Growth Theory: The Harrod-Domar Models
  • 18. Neoclassical Growth Models
  • 19. Post-Keynesian Growth Theory
  • VII. Distribution Theory
  • Introduction
  • 20. Ten Issues in Distribution Theory
  • 21. Some Post-Keynesian Distribution Theory
  • VIII. Special Topics
  • Introduction
  • 22. Welfare Economics: Or, When is a Change an Improvement ?
  • 23. Ideology in Economics
  • 24. Population: The Economics of the Long Run
  • 25. Technology: More for Less?
  • 26. International Economics
  • 27. Development Economics
  • 28. Radical Economics
  • Index