An Alternative Macroeconomic Theory: The Kaleckian Model and Post-Keynesian Economics

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-94-010-7306-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

Reihe: Recent Economic Thought

lE. King Michael Kalecki (1899-1970) was one of the most important, and also one of the most underrated, economists of the twentieth century. In the 1930s he made a series of fundamental contributions to macroeconomic theory which anticipated, complemented and in some ways surpassed those of Keynes. Almost entirely self-educated in economics, and influenced rul much by Marxism as by mainstream theory, Kalecki very largely escaped the fatal embrace of pre-Keynesian orthodoxy, which blunted the thrust of the General Theory. Many Post Keynesians, in particular, have found in his work the elements of a convincing alternative to what Joan Robinson -Kalecki's greatest advocate in the English-speaking world - was scathingly to describe as 'bastard Keynesianism'. But Kalecki was never interested in theory for its own sake. He approached economics from a practical perspective, wrote extensively on applied and policy questions, and in the [mal decades of his life turned his attention increasingly to problems of economic development and the management of state socialist economies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

King, John E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Kalecki’s Role in Post Keynesian Economics: an Overview.- 2: Kalecki and Keynes.- 3: Microfoundations: a Kaleckian Perspective.- 4: Kalecki’s Theory of Prices and Distribution.- 5: Kalecki on the Trade Cycle and Economic Growth.- 6: Kalecki’s Monetary Economics.- 7: Kalecki and the Americans.- 8: Kalecki, Marx and the Economics of Socialism.- 9: Michal Kalecki and the Political Economy of the Third World.- Contributing Authors.