On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays Selected Essays of G. C. Harcourt [Hardcover]

On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays is a collection of essays, biographies, review articles and tributes, focusing on the lives and times of the Cambridge School of Economists, and the immense contribution that these thinkers, including the author, made to the discipline.PART I: TITLE ESSAY On Skidelsky's Keynes  PART II: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Political Economy, Politics and Religion  PART III: POST-KEYNESIAN THEORY A Teaching Model of the 'Keynesian' System On Keynes and Chick on Prices in Modern Capitalism On Specifying the Demand for Imports in Macroeconomic Models The Theoretical and Political Importance of Keynes The Rise and Fall of Economic Neo-liberalism in Theory and Practice Price Theory and Multinational Oligopoly  PART IV: REVIEW ARTICLES A Revolution Yet to Be Accomplished The Collected Writings of an Indian Sage  PART V: SURVEYS Keynes and the Cambridge School What is the Cambridge Approach to Economics?  PART VI: POLICY Markets, Madness and a Middle Way Revisited Finance, Speculation and Stability  PART VII: INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHIES AND TRIBUTES Tom Asimakopulos Keith Septimus Frearson William Brian Reddaway Sukhamoy Chakravarty David Gawen Champerowne Robin Matthews  PART VIII: GENERAL ESSAYS Economics: From Moral Science to Game Theory 100 Years of the Economics Tripos

This book contains the authors biography (his racial identity and situation, activities in the anti-Vietnam War, for example) and book reviews of many distinguished economists with whom the author has worked & . For all readers it represents (as indeed it has been for the reviewer) a good opportunity to approach various topics anew through the authors own perspective and views. (Toshaiki Hirai, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 38 (4), December, 2016)

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