1st Edition

Social Fairness and Economics Economic Essays in the Spirit of Duncan Foley

Edited By Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai, Thomas Michl Copyright 2013
432 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

432 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

432 Pages 44 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal contributions to a wide variety of areas. Foley’s work cannot be easily classified, but one thread that runs through it is a critical examination (along both ethical and analytical lines) of conventional neoclassical economic theory, particularly involving general... Read more

Introduction Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai and Thomas Michl  Personal Remarks: Festschrift Conference, April 21, 2012 Duncan Foley  Part I: Socio-Economic Ideology and Methodology  1. Keynes and Marx, Duncan and Me Michael Piore  2. The Sophisticated Legislator and Adam's Fallacy Samuel Bowles  3. The Role of Duncan Foley in the Emergence of the Complexity Concept in Economics J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.  4. Statistical Mechanics Approach to the Probability Distributions of Money, Wealth, Income, and Energy Consumption Victor Yakovenko  Part II: Neoclassical Economics: Dispersed and Decentralized Exchange  5. Production Decentralized by Decentralized Exchange A. J. Julius  6. Positional Goods, Climate Change, and the Social Returns to Investment Leila Davis and Peter Skott  7. Markets with Black Swans Graciela Chichilnisky  8. Equilibrium versus Market Efficiency Joseph McCauley  9. Foley's Thesis, Negishi’s Method, Existence Proofs and Computation K. Vela Velupillai Part III: Classical Political Economy: Growth and Distribution  10. Applying the Labour Theory of Value 1964-2009 Simon Mohun  11. The Sources of Profitability Peter Flaschel, Nils Fröhlich and Roberto Veneziani  12. On the "Vexata Questio of Value": Ricardo, Marx and Sraffa Heinz Kurz and Neri Salvadori  13. Duncan Foley’s Circuit of Capital Model for an Open Economy Martín Abeles  14. Production, Circuits of Capital, and Flows and Stocks in National Accounts Anwar Shaikh  15. Endogenous Technological Change in Classical-Marxian Models of Growth and Distribution Amitava Krishna Dutt  16. Macroeconomics of Keynesian and Marxian Inspirations: Toward a synthesis Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy  17. A Model of Fiscal and Monetary Policy Thomas Michl  18. Consequences of Downsizing in U.S. Manufacturing, 1967 to 1997 Edward Wolff Part IV: Complexity: Barriers and Bounds to Rationality  19. Market Ecology and the Economics of Crisis Rajiv Sethi  20. Market Complexity and the Nature of Crises in Financial Markets Philip Mirowski  21. The Inherent Hierarchy of Money Perry Mehrling

Biography

Lance Taylor is Arnhold Professor Emeritus of International Cooperation and Development at the New School University, New York, USA

Armon Rezai is Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Thomas Michl is Professor of Economics at Colgate University, Hamilton, USA