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Growth, Employment and Inflation

Essays in Honour of John Cornwall

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  • © 1999

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  1. Mark Setterfield

    1. Trinity College, Hartford, USA

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Mark Setterfield
      Pages 1-9

  3. The Vital Contributions of John Cornwall to Economic Theory and Policy: A Tribute from Two Admiring Friends on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

    1. The Vital Contributions of John Cornwall to Economic Theory and Policy: A Tribute from Two Admiring Friends on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

      • Geoff Harcourt, Mehdi Monadjemi
      Pages 10-23

  4. Reflections on the Methodology and Practice of Economics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Soros on ‘Free Market’ Equilibria

      • Rod Cross, Douglas Strachan
      Pages 27-40

    3. Economics and Complexity

      • Basil Moore
      Pages 41-56

    4. Modelling a Path-Dependent Economy: Lessons from John Cornwall’s Macrodynamics

      • Mark Setterfield
      Pages 57-71

    5. Post-Keynesianism and Institutionalism: Another Look at the Link

      • Geoff Hodgson
      Pages 72-87

    6. Are Economists Social Scientists?

      • Villy Bergström
      Pages 88-99

    7. Deregulation: The Anatomy of a Catchword

      • Kurt Rothschild
      Pages 100-109

  5. Economic Growth in Theory and Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. ‘Modern Capitalism’ in the 1970s and 1980s

      • Jan Fagerberg, Bart Verspagen
      Pages 113-126

    3. A Problem with the Empirical Neoclassical Analysis of Multisector Growth

      • John McCombie
      Pages 127-148

    4. Integration and Convergence in the European Union

      • Pascal Petit
      Pages 149-165

    5. Kaldor’s Growth Laws and the Principle of Cumulative Causation

      • Peter Skott
      Pages 166-179

    6. Social Capital and the Economy

      • Shaun Hargreaves Heap
      Pages 180-192
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About this book

This volume collects original contributions and recent research in economic theory and the political economy of unemployment and inflation from a team of internationally renowned scholars. These essays, collected in honour of John Cornwall, demonstrate the importance of economic institutions for economic outcomes and share his focus on the need for high level economic theory to be socially relevant. The book includes an intellectual biography of the honouree by Geoff Harcourt and Mehdi Monadjemi and a full bibliography of his work.

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"The book would be profitably read by most macroeconomists..." - Christopher J. Niggle, Review of Political Economy

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  • Trinity College, Hartford, USA

    Mark Setterfield

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PHILIP ARESTIS Department of Economics, University of East London, London, England IRIS BIEFANG-FRISANCHO MARISCAL Department of Economics, University of East London, London, England VILLY BERGSTRÖM Chief Editor, Dala-Demokraten, Falun, Sweden DAVID COLANDER Department of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, USA WENDY CORNWALL Department of Economics, Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Canada RED CROSS Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland JAN FAGERBERG ESST, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway JOHN FOSTER Department of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia GEOFFREY HARCOURT Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England SHAUN HARGREAVES HEAP School of Economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England GEOFFREY HODGSON Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England JOHN MCCOMBIE Fellow in Economics, Downing College, Cambridge, England MEHDI MONADJEMI Department of Economics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia BASIL MOORE Department of Economics, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA PASCAL PETIT CEPREMAP, Paris, France STEVEN PRESSMAN Department of Economics and Finance, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, USA KURT ROTHSCHILD Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Linz, Linz, Austria PETER SKOTT Department of Economics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark DOUGLAS STRACHAN Department of Economics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland BART VERSPAGEN MERIT, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands.

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