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Book SynopsisThis important new book brings together a significant body of new essays on some of the central economic problems facing governments, firms and individuals in the 1990s.
Under the direction of Paul Davidson and Jan Kregel, an international group of distinguished economists provide new perspectives on key issues including employment, corporate and work place restructuring, economic growth and development, financial integration and transformation of the former command economies. Combining rigorous scholarly assessments of the issues with policy prescription, the contributors seek to provide solutions to the problem of providing full employment, to identify the factors determining the expansion of the economy, and to analyse the impact of financial markets, financial derivatives and international regulations on domestic and global economic performance.
Employment, Growth and Finance will be welcomed by all those interested in the solutions to international economic problems being developed by post Keynesian economists.
Trade Review’. . . the book will be of interest to anyone who would like a sample of post Keynesian view on some important economic issues.’ -- S. Drakopoulos, Economic Journal
Table of ContentsPart 1 Employment: The intellectual and institutional requirements for full employment, Malcolm Sawyer; the psychological costs of unemployment and unemployment hysteresis - theory and evidence, Arthur B. Goldsmith, Jonathan R. Veum, William Darity Jr.; aggregate and household behaviour - poverty and savings, David Bunting; the guaranteed minimum income as a proposal to remove poverty in Brazil, Eduardo Matarazzo, Suplicy and Samir Cury; the influence of changes in income distribution on aggregate demand in a Kaleckian model - stagflation vs exhilaration reconsidered, Tracy Mott, Edward Slattery; ownership and management, Nina Shapiro. Part 2 Growth: What's so "new" about the "new" theories of technical change? - Adam Smith, Robert Lucas Jr and economic growth, William Darity Jr; recent developments in growth theory - a post-Keynesian response, Mark Setterfield; structural change and productivity in OECD, John Cornwall, Wendy Cornwall; Part 3 Finance: Full employment and economic growth as an objective of economic policy - some thoughts on the limits of capitalism, Hyman Minsky; global protfolio allocation, hedging, and September 1992 in the European monetary system, Jan A. Kregel; the role of the Basle committee on banking supervision in the regulation of international banking, Andrew Cornford; is there an economic (neo-classical) explanation for the magic of the technical analysis of stock markets, Andrea Terzi; can capitalism be built through shortcuts? lessons from Poland's economic reform, Edward K. Zajicek.
