1st Edition

Revisiting Classical Economics Studies in Long-Period Analysis

By Heinz Kurz, Neri Salvadori Copyright 2015
346 Pages
by Routledge

346 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The financial crisis and the economic crisis that followed triggered a crisis in the subject of economics, as it is typically being taught today especially in macroeconomics and related fields. A renewed interest in earlier authors, especially the classical economists from Adam Smith to David Ricardo and John Maynard Keynes, developed. This book may also be seen as a response to this interest.... Read more


1. Classical Economics and Modern Theory 2. On Sraffa's contribution 3. Production of commodities by means of commodities in its making 4. Growth and Distribution 4. Exhaustible Resources

Biography



Heinz D. Kurz is Professor of Economics at the University of Graz, Austria, and Chairman of the Graz Schumpeter Centre.



Neri Salvadori is Professor of Economics at the University of Pisa, Italy, and Chairman of CISCE (Centro Ineruniversitario per lo Studio sulla Crescita e lo Sviluppo Economico).  



 

"Kurz and Salvadori... provide an up-todate development of many aspects of the classical approach to economics. The book will be useful to those interested in the classical approach and here we include not only the historians of economic thought, but also those economic theorists interested in a relevant and also viable alternative to the neoclassical approach, capable of addressing current problems."

- Lefteris Tsoulfidis, in the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought