Markets, Unemployment and Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of Geoff Harcourt, Volume Two: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Philip Arestis, Gabriel Palma, Malcolm Sawyer

1: Horses for Courses; 2: Abstraction, Idealization and Economic Theory; 3: Markets, Madness and many Middle Ways; 4: Efficient Redistribution in a Globally Competitive Economy; 5: The Fears of Economists; 6: UK Privatization; 7: Inequity and Access to Private Education; 8: The Accountant in a Turbulent Age; 9: The Economic Rate of Return and the Accountant; 10: Corporate Finance and Capital Accumulation; 11: How Free Should Trade Be Now?; 12: The Competitive Weaknesses of the Uk Economy; 13: Post-Stalinist System Reform in China and Russia; 14: Socialism; 15: Understanding Effective Demand; 16: The Effects of Changes in Aggregate income Shares on Aggregate Demand; 17: Macroeconomics and the Distribution of Income 1; 18: Provisional Equilibrium and Macroeconomic Theory; 19: Equilibrium, Path Dependence and Hysteresis in Post-Keynesian Models; 20: Exploring ‘The Original Kalecki Model T'; 21: The T-F-M Approach to Production Analysis and the Analysis of Structural Change 1; 22: Limits to Relative Price Movements; 23: The Myths of Free Banking; 24: Defining and Measuring Unemployment in the United Kingdom; 25: High Youth Wages Can Generate General and Persistent Unemployment; 26: Labour Markets And Competition As An Evolutionary Process; 27: The Labour Market Of Fear; 28: Workers' Rights And Economic Flexibility; 29: Changes In The Notions Of Unemployment And What That Means For The Poor; 30: Unemployment Prospects for Modern Capitalism; 31: The Stock Market And The Corporate Sector; 32: Expanding Employment in the Global Economy; 33: What are the Constraints on the Pursuit of Keynesian Macroeconomic Policies?; 34: Post-Keynesian Economic Policies For ‘World Prosperity'; 35: Corporate Restructuring in Europe and the Regulation of Competition; 36: When Workers Save Nothing And Capitalists Consume Everything; 37: Growth And Employment; 38: Economic Growth And The Balance-Of-Payments Constraint Revisited; 39: Economic Policy In Post-Apartheid South Africa

In this volume more than 40 leading economists critically evaluate the work of Geoff Harcourt. Contributors include Tony Atkinson, Tony Lawson, Edward Nell and Ian Steedman.