The Selected Essays of Meghanad Desai: Macroeconomics and monetary theory

The Selected Essays of Meghanad Desai: Macroeconomics and monetary theory
Author: Meghnad Desai
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1995
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Meghnad Desai's work presents a significant challenge to economics as currently practised. This volume brings together a collection of essays on issues in macroeconomics and monetary theory from an unorthodox but rigorous position. Beginning with a series of essays which address the inflation problem using an extension of the Goodwin model, the volume continues with his revisionist interpretation of the Phillips Curve, assessments of monetarism, discussion of the economics of Keynes and Hayek, and an original paper on monetary theory. Later chapters include the author's work on applied econometrics, endogenous and exogenous money, and financial innovation. The volume also includes a substantial autobiographical preface, in which Lord Desai explains how he became an economist and the influences behind the development of his thought, as well as a specific introduction explaining how he came to produce the papers included in this volume.

Marx's Revenge

Marx's Revenge
Author: Meghnad Desai
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 593
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789609453

In this provocative and enthusiastically revisionist book, the distinguished economist Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism's recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed would, in a certain sense, have welcomed. Capitalism, as Marx understood it, would only reach its limits when it was no longer capable of progress. Desai argues that globalization, in bringing the possibility of open competition on world markets to producers in the Third World, has proved that capitalism is still capable of moving forwards. Marx's Revenge opens with a consideration of the ideas of Adam Smith and Hegel. It proceeds to look at the nuances in the work of Marx himself, and concludes with a survey of more recent economists who studied capitalism and attempted to unravel its secrets, including Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek.

Monetary Macroeconomics

Monetary Macroeconomics
Author: Alvaro Cencini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2001-06-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134645309

This book provides the grounding for a new approach to monetary economics, elicits a new understanding of the conditions behind today's monetary disorders and prescribes new remedies to cure them once and for all.

Economic Performance and the Theory of the Firm

Economic Performance and the Theory of the Firm
Author: David J. Teece
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 670
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781782542919

These papers by Teece cover the theory of the firm and its implications for economic performance, as they concern managers and policy-makers. Key topics addressed include: the nature of the firm and dynamic capabilities; diversification and vertical integration; and joint ventures.

Money and Macroeconomics

Money and Macroeconomics
Author: David E. W. Laidler
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781781959800

Money and Macroeconomics is a significant collection of David Laidler's most important papers on the so-called 'monetarist counter-revolution'. This volume contains both published and unpublished examples of his influential contribution, detailing empirical work on the demand for money, the economics of inflation, the foundations of the 'buffer stock' approach to monetary theory, the monetarist critique of new classical economics and issues of economic policy.

Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy

Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy
Author: Karl Brunner
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Collects one interview with, and 14 essays by, Karl Brunner, originator of the theory of monetarism. Focusing on macroeconomic issues, and drawing heavily from the period 1973-1988, this second volume of Brunner's selected essays addresses such central themes as the need to bridge the gulf between theory and policy, the nature of relevant analysis and its importance for policy, and the value of basing judgments on the assessment of competing hypotheses. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Time Series Analysis and Macroeconometric Modelling

Time Series Analysis and Macroeconometric Modelling
Author: Kenneth Frank Wallis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781782541622

'An excellent reference volume of this author's work, bringing together articles published over a 25 year span on the statistical analysis of economic time series, large scale macroeconomic modelling and the interface between them.' - Aslib Book Guide This major volume of essays by Kenneth F. Wallis features 28 articles published over a quarter of a century on the statistical analysis of economic time series, large-scale macroeconometric modelling, and the interface between them. The first part deals with time-series econometrics and includes significant early contributions to the development of the LSE tradition in time-series econometrics, which is the dominant British tradition and has considerable influence worldwide. Later sections discuss theoretical and practical issues in modelling seasonality and forecasting with applications in both large-scale and small-scale models. The final section summarizes the research programme of the ESRC Macroeconomic Modelling Bureau, a unique comparison project among economy-wide macroeconometric models.

Macroeconomic Instability and Coordination

Macroeconomic Instability and Coordination
Author: Axel Leijonhufvud
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781781008393

Axel Leijonhufvud has made a unique contribution to the development of macroeconomic theory. This volume draws together his insightful essays dealing with the extremes of economic instability: great depressions, high inflation and the transition from socialism to a market economy. In several of the papers, Leijonhufvud brings a neo-institutionalist perspective to the problems of coordination in economic systems. The papers within Macroeconomic Instability and Coordination some of them already considered classics, deal with the questions that dominated Leijonhufvud's interest throughout his career as an economist: what are the limits to an economy's capacity to coordinate the activities of its members? How does the behavior of the system change under extreme conditions? In what ways does its performance depend upon the institutions that govern the market process?

Economic Analysis and Political Ideology

Economic Analysis and Political Ideology
Author: Karl Brunner
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1996-10-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781782541547

'Every economist would benefit from reading this book. It contains the papers of an imaginative, rigorous and generous scholar.' - Geoffrey Wood, The Economic Journal These volumes provide insight into a man absorbed and preoccupied by economic scholarship. Economic Analysis and Political Ideology, the first volume with a foreword by Nobel Laureate James Buchanan, reproduces articles dealing with Professor Brunner's socioeconomic analysis. The second volume, Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy, with a foreword by Alan Meltzer, deals with macroeconomic issues.