1st Edition

The Evolution of Economic Theory Essays in Honour of Bertram Schefold

Edited By Volker Caspari Copyright 2011
268 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Bertram Schefold is recognized internationally as an outstanding economist. He has made major contributions to the development of economic theory and particularly to economic thought. His contributions to economic theory include his work on Sraffian economics and its implications for the theory of value and distribution, capital theory, growth and technical progress. This book consists... Read more
Introduction Volker Caspari  Part 1: Marxian and Sraffian Economics 1. Sraffa and the Universal Basic Income Guglielmo Chiodi  2. The Long-Period Method and Marx’sTheory of Value Duncan K. Foley  3. Exhaustible Resources: Rents, Profits, Royalties, and Prices Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori  Part II: Capital Theory  4. On the Recent Debate on Capital Theory and General Equilibrium Fabio Petri  5. Capital ‘Perversities’ in a One (New) Commodity Model Ian Steedman  Part III: History of Economic Thought  6. Walras-Cassel, the German Connection Revisited Alain Alcouffe  7. Knut Wicksell’s Principle of Just Taxation Revisited Charles B. Blankart and Erik R. Fasten Part IV: Macro and Applied Economics  8. The Matching of Interactive Agents in the Futures Stock Market and the U-Mart Experiment Yuji Aruka and Yuhsuke Koyama  9. Macroeconomics with Non-Clearing Labour Market Willi Semmler and Gang Gong  10. Choosing between foreign investment and subcontracting: Strategies of Italian firms in Romania Giuseppe Tattara

Biography

Volker Caspari is Professor of Political Economy at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.