Essays in Modern Capital Theory

Essays in Modern Capital Theory
Author: Murray Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1976
Genre: Capital
ISBN:

Monograph comprising essays on topics relating to the use of economic theories of capital in economic analysis - discusses the 'Cambridge controversy' in capital theory involving income distribution, rates of investment return and profit, the input output relations with regard to technology and capital goods, and presents three new approaches to capital theory centred on the notion of economic equilibrium and an economic model based on Marxism. Bibliographys after most chapters and graphs.

An Essay on Capital

An Essay on Capital
Author: Israel M. Kirzner
Publisher: New York : A. M. Kelley
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1966
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Modern Capitalism

Modern Capitalism
Author: Paul M. Sweezy
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 1972
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0853452164

Few contributions to the understanding of modern capitalism and its mode of operation and evolution have been more important than those made by Paul Sweezy. The essays in this volume continue and deepen his work of interpretation found in The Theory of Capitalist Development, Monopoly Capital, and The Present as History.

Theory as Critique: Essays on Capital

Theory as Critique: Essays on Capital
Author: Paul Mattick
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004366571

Theory as Critique, while discussing many central issues of Marxian theory, has two main emphases: First, as the title suggests, it takes seriously Capital’s claim to be a critique of economic theory, rather than a contribution to political economy. Understanding what this means, it shows, goes far to unravelling many difficulties traditionally found in Marx’s book, from the nature of his theory of class to the 'transformation problem'. Secondly, Mattick’s volume carefully explores how to bridge the gap between the extreme abstraction of Marx’s ideas and the complex reality that they are intended to help us understand.

An Essay on Capital

An Essay on Capital
Author: Israel M. Kirzner
Publisher: New York : A. M. Kelley
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1966
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

There's No Such Thing as "The Economy"

There's No Such Thing as
Author: Samuel A. Chambers
Publisher: punctum books
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1947447890

Every Economics textbook today teaches that questions of values and morality lie outside of, are in fact excluded from, the field of Economics and its proper domain of study, "the economy." Yet the dominant cultural and media narrative in response to major economic crisis is almost always one of moral outrage. How do we reconcile this tension or explain this paradox by which Economics seems to have both everything and nothing to do with values? The discipline of modern economics hypostatizes and continually reifies a domain it calls "the economy"; only this epistemic practice makes it possible to falsely separate the question of value from the broader inquiry into the economic. And only if we have first eliminated value from the domain of economics can we then transform stories of financial crisis or massive corporate corruption into simple tales of ethics. But if economic forces establish, transform, and maintain relations of value then it proves impossible to separate economics from questions of value, because value relations only come to be in the world by way of economic logics. This means that the "positive economics" spoken of so fondly in the textbooks is nothing more than a contradiction in terms, and as this book demonstrates, there's no such thing as "the economy." To grasp the basic logic of capital is to bring into view the unbreakable link between economics and value.

Essays on Capital and Interest

Essays on Capital and Interest
Author: Israel M. Kirzner
Publisher: Collected Works of Israel M. K
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780865977808

The third volume of "The Collected ""Works of Israel M. Kirzner" presents a collection of writings on capital theory that serve both as a discourse in the history of economic thought and as conceptual clarification in one of the most complex subjects in economics. This edition explores the notions of capital and interest in light of the controversies surrounding these topics. The first essay in this volume is Kirzner's introduction to the 1996 edition. The second essay was published as a stand-alone book in 1966 and presents Kirzner's capital theory, focusing on multi-period production plans. In the third essay Kirzner offers an interpretation of Ludwig von Mises's view of capital and interest. The fourth essay, written in the late 1980s, is Kirzner's attempt to clarify the difficulties found in interest theory. Finally, the fifth essay deals with Sir John Hick's capital theory in light of Kirzner's own Austrian position. Israel M. Kirzner is a leading economist in the Austrian School and Emeritus Professor of economics at New York University. Peter J. Boettke is the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center and a University Professor of economics at George Mason University. Since 1988 he has been the editor of the "Review of Austrian Economics." Frederic Sautet is a Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of America. Previously, he has taught at George Mason University, New York University, and the University of Paris Dauphine. He was also a senior economist at the New Zealand Treasury and the New Zealand Commerce Commission. He is the author of "An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm" and has widely published on entrepreneurship.

Sraffa and Modern Economics, Volume I

Sraffa and Modern Economics, Volume I
Author: Roberto Ciccone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136717234

Analyzing Sraffa, one of the key figures in the history of economics, this book explores his legacy and the relevance of his thought for modern economics. Written by an array of internationally respected contributors, including Schefold, Aspromourgos, Nell and Kurz it is an invaluable tool for all those studying the history of economic thought.