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Book Synopsis
The eight essays presented here are unified by the author’s insistence that neo-Keynesian and neoclassical theory are an inadequate basis for economic analysis and policy prescription.

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. The Long Cycle: An Integrated View
  • 2. A Simple Model of the Kondratieff Cycle with Four Variations
  • 3. Energy, Full Employment, and Regional Development: The American Case
  • Appendix: A Comparison of Investment Estimates for the National Energy Plan and Energy Information Administration Projections to 1985
  • 4. Technology and the Price System
  • 5. Money and Prices
  • 6. Growth Rates at Different Levels of Income and Stage of Growth : Reflections on Why the Poor Get Richer and the Rich Slow Down
  • Appendix 1. Real GNP per Capita
  • Appendix 2. Gross Investment as Percentage of GNP
  • 7. How to Break the Impasse in North-South Multilateral Economic Negotiations
  • 8. The Chapter That Keynes Never Wrote
  • Notes
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/1980
      ISBN13: 9780292729636, 978-0292729636
      ISBN10: 0292729634

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The eight essays presented here are unified by the author’s insistence that neo-Keynesian and neoclassical theory are an inadequate basis for economic analysis and policy prescription.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • 1. The Long Cycle: An Integrated View
      • 2. A Simple Model of the Kondratieff Cycle with Four Variations
      • 3. Energy, Full Employment, and Regional Development: The American Case
      • Appendix: A Comparison of Investment Estimates for the National Energy Plan and Energy Information Administration Projections to 1985
      • 4. Technology and the Price System
      • 5. Money and Prices
      • 6. Growth Rates at Different Levels of Income and Stage of Growth : Reflections on Why the Poor Get Richer and the Rich Slow Down
      • Appendix 1. Real GNP per Capita
      • Appendix 2. Gross Investment as Percentage of GNP
      • 7. How to Break the Impasse in North-South Multilateral Economic Negotiations
      • 8. The Chapter That Keynes Never Wrote
      • Notes
      • Author Index
      • Subject Index

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