Political Economy in the Twentieth Century

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Maxine Berg
Rowman & Littlefield, 1990 - Business & Economics - 164 pages
This collection of previously unpublished essays discusses the work of a select number of major intellectuals of the recent past (Joan Robinson, Piero Sraffa, Maurice Dobb, Michal Kalecki, Paul Sweezy and Joseph Schumpeter). These are not the figures who dominated established economic traditions; they stood, rather, outside the mainstream, acting as critics of the capitalist order and of the theory that sought to explain it. More than a study of leading intellectuals, the book also investigates the principal problems and theoretical inheritance which linked together theorists of otherwise disparate social and political contexts.

Students and scholars of the history of economic thought will find many interesting ideas here. It will be a fascinating source of reference for many years to come.

The contributors are: Geoff Harcourt; A. K. Sen; Malcolm Sawyer; Josef Steindl; Michael Lebowitz and Tom Bottomore.
 

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Historical Introduction
1
Maurice Herbert Dobb
26
On the Contributions of Joan Robinson and Piero Sraffa to Economic Theory
35
The Economics of Michal Kalecki
68
From Stagnation in the 1930s to Slow Growth in the 1970s
97
JA Schumpeter
116
Paul M Sweezy
131
Index
163
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