The Economics of Imperfect Competition and Employment : Joan Robinson and Beyond

This study and its companion, "Joan Robinson and Economic Theory" looks at Joan Robinson, her impact upon modern economics, her challenges and critiques, and the advances made in the science and art of economics. It studies her ideas, themes and concerns from many different perspectives Front Matter....Pages i-lx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Towards an Integration of Imperfect Competition and Macrodynamics: Kalecki, Keynes, Joan Robinson....Pages 3-145 Involuntary Unemployment and Imperfect Competition: A Game-theoretic Macromodel....Pages 146-165 Front Matter....Pages 167-167 The Cambridge Background to Imperfect Competition....Pages 169-196 Imperfect Competition After Fifty Years....Pages 197-211 Competition and the Number of Participants: Lessons of Edgeworth’s Theorem....Pages 212-224 Is Imperfect Competition Empirically Empty?....Pages 225-240 Front Matter....Pages 241-241 Competitive Equilibrium in a Market with Decentralized Trade and Strategic Behavior: An Introduction....Pages 243-259 Entry and Exit....Pages 260-304 Effects of Entry on Profits under Monopolistic Competition....Pages 305-364 An Essay on Price Discrimination....Pages 365-386 Competitive Discriminatory Pricing....Pages 387-406 Front Matter....Pages 407-407 Two Applications of Characteristics Theory....Pages 409-436 Price-Quality Competition in Oligopolistic Interdependence....Pages 437-461 Who Benefits from Unemployment?....Pages 462-481 Front Matter....Pages 483-483 Monopolistic Competition and the Capital Market....Pages 485-507 Competition, Non-linear Pricing and Rationing in Credit Markets....Pages 508-534 Front Matter....Pages 535-535 Testimony I: An interview....Pages 537-553 Testimony II: An Interview....Pages 554-568 Testimony III: An Interview....Pages 569-581 Profit Sharing — A New ‘Keynesian’ Alternative? An Interview....Pages 582-595 Front Matter....Pages 597-597 The Paradox of Money in the Economics of Joan Robinson....Pages 599-612 Money and Finance in Joan Robinson’s Works....Pages 613-630 Joan Robinson and the New Classical Economists as Critics of Keynesian Economics....Pages 631-645 Front Matter....Pages 647-647 On Inventories and the Business Cycle....Pages 649-676 Sunspots and Incomplete Financial Markets: The Leading Example....Pages 677-693 Debts, Deficits and Interest Rates....Pages 694-708 Debt and Deficit and Other Illusions....Pages 709-720 On the Goals of Economic Policy....Pages 721-737 Front Matter....Pages 739-739 Economic Cooperation as a Means of Improving East-West Relations....Pages 741-748 The Economics of Warfare: Joan Robinson’s Challenge....Pages 749-768 Back Matter....Pages 769-775