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Markets, unemployment, and economic policy

Title
Markets, unemployment, and economic policy / edited by Philip Arestis, Gabriel Palma, and Malcolm Sawyer.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Arestis, Philip, 1941-
  • Palma, J. Gabriel.
  • Sawyer, Malcolm C.
  • Harcourt, G. C. (Geoffrey Colin), 1931-
Description
xxi, 553 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Series Statement
  • Routledge frontiers of political economy
  • Essays in honour of Geoff Harcourt ; v. 2
Uniform Title
  • Routledge frontiers of political economy
  • Essays in honour of Geoff Harcourt ; v. 2.
Subject
  • Harcourt, G. C. 1931-
  • Harcourt, Geoffrey Colin, (1931- ...)
  • Harcourt, Geoffrey Colin
  • Capitalism
  • Markets
  • Unemployment
  • Economic policy
  • Arbeitsmarkt
  • Internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Arbeitslosigkeit
  • Wirtschaftspolitik
  • Bibliografie
  • Economische politiek
  • Keynésianisme > Histoire
  • Économie politique > Histoire
  • Emploi
  • Marchés > Histoire
  • Chômage > Histoire
  • Politique économique > Histoire
  • Économie de marché
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Foreword / Joe Isaac -- Geoff Harcourt: A tribute by Richard Goodwin -- Introduction / Philip Arestis, Gabriel Palma and Malcolm Sawyer -- 1. Horses for Courses / Tony Lawson -- 2. Abstraction, Idealization and Economic Theory / Jochen Runde -- 3. Markets, Madness and Many Middle Ways: Some reflections on the institutional diversity of capitalism / Ha-Joon Chang -- 4. Efficient Redistribution in a Globally Competitive Economy / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- 5. Fears of Economists / Fred Gruen -- 6. UK Privatization: Effects on households / Catherine Waddams Price and Ruth Hancock -- 7. Inequity and Access to Private Education: An overlapping generations model with altruism / Paul Madden -- 8. Accountant in a Turbulent Age: Accounting conventions and the failure of healthy companies / Geoff Meeks and Gay Meeks -- 9. Economic Rate of Return and the Accountant / Geoff Whittington -- 10.
  • 22. Limits to Relative Price Movements / Ian Steedman -- 23. Myths of Free Banking / Mervyn K. Lewis -- 24. Defining and Measuring Unemployment in the United Kingdom: Updating the recent controversy / John Wells -- 25. High Youth Wages Can Generate General and Persistent Unemployment / Murray C. Kemp, Ngo Van Long and Koji Shimomura -- 26. Labour Markets and Competition as an Evolutionary Process / J. Stan Metcalfe -- 27. Labour Market of Fear / Peter Riach -- 28. Workers' Rights and Economic Flexibility / Ugo Pagano -- 29. Changes in the Notions of Unemployment and What That Means for the Poor / Frank Wilkinson -- 30. Unemployment Prospects for Modern Capitalism / John Cornwall and Wendy Cornwall -- 31. Stock Market and the Corporate Sector: A profit-based approach / Anwar Shaikh -- 32. Expanding Employment in the Global Economy: The high road or the low road? / Ajit Singh -- 33. What are the Constraints on the Pursuit of Keynesian Macroeconomic Policies? / Malcolm Sawyer -- 34. Post-Keynesian Economic Policies for 'World Prosperity' / Philip Arestis -- 35. Corporate Restructuring in Europe and the Regulation of Competition / Andy Cosh and Alan Hughes -- 36. When Workers Save Nothing and Capitalists Consume Everything: Was Kaldor right about why Latin America had such poor savings performance? / Gabriel Palma -- 37. Growth and Employment: An interpretation of some fundamental transformations in the OECD countries / Ferdinando Targetti -- 38. Economic Growth and the Balance-of-Payments Constraint Revisited / John McCombie and Tony Thirlwall -- 39. Economic Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa / Jonathan Michie -- Geoff Harcourt: a bibliography.
ISBN
  • 0415133904
  • 9780415133906
LCCN
97155047
OCLC
  • ocm36932976
  • 36932976
  • SCSB-14204455
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library