The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest: Selected Essays of G. C. Harcourt

The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest gathers up the threads of the last decade of the author's twenty eight years in Cambridge, before his return to Australia. The essays include autobiography, theory, review articles, surveys, policy, intellectual biographies and tributes, and general essays. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction: The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 ‘Horses for Courses’: The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist (1999)....Pages 11-51 Front Matter....Pages 53-53 The Debates on the Representative Firm and Increasing Returns: Then and Now (2007)....Pages 55-83 Paul Samuelson on Karl Marx: Were the Sacrificed Games of Tennis Worth It? (2006)....Pages 84-98 Capital-Reversing and Reswitching (2009)....Pages 99-111 Whatever Happened to the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies? (2003)....Pages 112-130 The Relevance of the Cambridge–Cambridge Controversies in Capital Theory for Econometric Practice (2007)....Pages 131-151 The Harrod Model of Growth and Some Early Reactions to It (2006)....Pages 152-157 On Mark Perlman and Joseph Schumpeter: Their Respective Approaches to Evolutionary Economics and the History of Economic Theory (2004)....Pages 158-163 Front Matter....Pages 165-165 Monsters and Morals: Reviewing David Jenkins, Market Whys and Human Wherefores. Thinking again about Markets, Politics and People, 2000 (2002)....Pages 167-170 On Paul Krugman on Maynard Keynes’s General Theory (2008)....Pages 171-180 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 Joan Robinson and Her Circle (2005)....Pages 183-200 The Cambridge Economic Tradition (2003)....Pages 201-208 Front Matter....Pages 209-209 New Labour and Constitutional Reform: Why not Introduce Compulsory Voting in all Elections? (2000)....Pages 211-214 The Economic Policies of Gordon Brown and the Treasury: Stability for What? (2001)....Pages 215-221 Chickens Coming Home to Roast (2003)....Pages 222-225 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 The Vital Contributions of John Cornwall to Economic Theory and Policy: A Tribute from Two Admiring Friends on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (1999)....Pages 229-243 Wilfred Edward Graham Salter, 27 March 1929– 10 November 1963 (2007)....Pages 244-247 Peter Karmel: A Tribute (2009)....Pages 248-252 John Richard Wells, 1947–1999 (1999)....Pages 253-255 Front Matter....Pages 227-227 Second Address at the Memorial Gathering for Alister Sutherland, Trinity College, 30 October 2004 (2004)....Pages 256-258 Front Matter....Pages 259-259 Despised and Rejected’ (1995)....Pages 261-265 Speech to Commerce Graduates at the University of Melbourne (2003)....Pages 266-268 Back Matter....Pages 269-273 The eminent post-Keynesian economist Geoffrey Harcourt documents the development of key issues and debates in modern economics. This selection of essays focuses on the theoretical discussionsin Cambridge at this time. The author includes analyses of modern capitalism and the debates surrounding this, as well as surveys of modern economic traditions, tributes to influential thinkers known to the author, review articles and autobiographical essays "The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest gathers up the threads of the last decade of the author's 28 years in Cambridge. The essays include autobiography, theory, review articles, surveys, policy, intellectual biographies and tributes, and general essays"-- Provided by publisher