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Neo-Marxism and Post-Keynesian Economics: From Kalecki to Sraffa and Joan Robinson book cover

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Neo-Marxism and Post-Keynesian Economics From Kalecki to Sraffa and Joan Robinson

By Ludo Cuyvers Copyright 2022
264 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Piero Sraffa and Joan Robinson, both iconic Cambridge economists, were highly influenced by the economic theory of Karl Marx, and integrated important elements of Marx’s economic system into their theories. This book argues, based on published and unpublished documents, that the work of Sraffa and Robinson can in fact be considered as essentially post-Keynesian neo-Marxist. The first part of... Read more

Part I: Post-Keynesian Neo-Marxism: The Trajectory

1. The core of Marx’s economics and the monopolization of capitalism: An Introduction to some major issues.

2. The Oxbridge connection: Sraffa, Kalecki, Steindl

3. The other side of the Atlantic

4. Piero Sraffa and Joan Robinson: Two directions of Post-Keynesian neo-Marxism.

5. What remains of the post-Keynesian neo-Marxist economics? An unfinished integration

Part II: Piero Sraffa’s neo-Marxist theory of value and distribution.

6. The work and life of Piero Sraffa

7. Let one hundred schools of thought blossom …: Some major differences with Marx

8. How were Sraffa’s theoretical insights received by the Marxists? A timeline

9. What to conclude? 

Part III: Joan Robinson: Modelling capitalist economic growth with Marxist and neo-Marxist ingredients

10. Joan Robinson’s life: A short overview.

11. Robinson’s theory of economic growth and accumulation in a nutshell

12. Joan Robinson’s and Marx’s model and concepts compared

13. What is Joan Robinson’s indebtedness to Sraffa?

14. Robinson’s model of economic growth compared with Marx and with the post-Keynesian neo-Marxism of the 1940s and 1950s.

15. What has remained of Robinson’s post-Keynesian neo-Marxism?

Biography

Ludo Cuyvers is Emeritus Professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium and Extraordinary Professor at North-West University, South Africa.

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