Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics

✍ Scribed by Marc Lavoie (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 179
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers an accessible introduction to post-Keynesian economics, showing that there is an alternative to neoclassical economics and its free-market economic policies. Post-Keynesian economics is founded on realistic assumptions, such as interest targeting by central banks or constant average variable costs in manufacturing and services

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Post-Keynesian Heterodoxy....Pages 1-24
Heterodox Microeconomics....Pages 25-53
A Macroeconomic Monetary Circuit....Pages 54-82
The Short Period: Effective Demand and the Labour Market....Pages 83-107
The Long Period: Old and New Growth Models....Pages 108-130
General Conclusion....Pages 131-132
Back Matter....Pages 133-164

✦ Subjects

Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Economic History; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods