A New Guide to Post-Keynesian EconomicsEichner's classic A Guide to Post-Keynesian Economics (1978) is still seen as the definitive staging post for those wishing to familiarise themselves with the Post-Keynesian School. This book brings the story up-to-date.Of all the subgroups within heterodox economics, Post-Keynesianism has provided the most convincing alternative to mainstream theo |
Contents
Policy issues | 68 |
Unfinished business | 70 |
Summary | 73 |
Money and inflation | 75 |
Keynes Knapp and the neoChartalist approach | 76 |
The Post Keynesian approach to money and inflation | 77 |
Policy implications | 84 |
Macrodynamics | 88 |
Pricing | 17 |
Varieties of costplus pricing | 18 |
Determinants of the markup | 21 |
Important complications | 23 |
Policy implications and future research | 24 |
The distribution of income | 28 |
The argument since 1978 | 30 |
Toward a macroeconomic theory of personal income distribution | 31 |
Evidence on the macrotheory of income distribution | 35 |
Tax incidence | 38 |
The orthodox theory of tax incidence | 39 |
The Post Keynesian approach | 41 |
Conclusion | 46 |
Uncertainty and expectations | 48 |
Keynes on uncertainty and expectations | 49 |
Post Keynesian perspectives on uncertainty and expectation | 51 |
Conventions and bounded rationality in forming expectations | 55 |
Open questions and policy implications | 56 |
Labor and unemployment | 61 |
Harrod and the genesis of modern macrodynamics | 89 |
The characteristics of demandled growth | 90 |
Other prominent features of Post Keynesian macrodynamics | 92 |
Avenues for further research | 93 |
Policy implications | 94 |
The role of the state and the state budget | 98 |
The neoclassical view of the state | 99 |
Key nes and the role of the state | 100 |
Two critiques of the Keynesian view of the state | 101 |
A Post Keynesian theory of the state | 103 |
Policy implications | 107 |
International monetary arrangements | 110 |
Development of the international monetary system | 111 |
The search for stability | 113 |
Keynesianism in one country? | 115 |
Concluding remarks | 118 |
A look ahead | 122 |
Index | 127 |
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