235 Pages
by
Routledge
235 Pages
by
Routledge
This collection of major new essays offers a full range of alternative ways of looking at the economy. The alternatives adopted here focus on the post-Keynesian body of thought. The essays offered here represent a serious challenge to the prevailing orthodoxies and demand new ways of thinking about economics.
Foreword, Introduction, 1 The Formation of Economic Policy: A Question for Economists?, 2 The Financial Instability Hypothesis : A Restatement, 3 The Rise of Monetarism as a Social Doctrine, 4 Keynesians, Monetarists and Keynes: The End of the Debate — or a Beginning?, 5 Is there any Crowding-out of Private Expenditure by Fiscal Actions?, 6 Post-Keynesianism: Quite Wrong and/or Nothing New?, 7 Towards a Post-Kaleckian Macroeconomics, 8 The Political Economy of Rapid Industrialisation, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Philip Arestis is Head of the Economics Division, Thames Polytechnic. Thanos Skouras is Head of the Department of Applied Economics at North East London Polytechnic.