Alfred Marshall and modern economics : equilibrium theory and evolutionary economics /
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| Author / Creator: | Hart, Neil, 1955- |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. |
| Description: | xiii, 271 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9116632 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Equilibrium and Evolution
- 1.1. Outline of the book
- 1.2. Equilibrium analogies in economic theory
- 1.3. Towards a 'more biological paradigm'
- 2. Alfred Marshall's Economic Biology Mecca and Mechanical Analogies
- 2.1. Marshall's economic biology, increasing returns, and the representative firm theory
- 2.2. Mechanical analogies and Marshall's 'reconciliation problem'
- 2.3. Marshall and the Marshallians
- 2.4. Marshall's 'loyal but faithless' followers
- 3. Equilibrium Economics after Marshall
- 3.1. The imperfect competition 'revolution': exorcising the Marshallian incubus?
- 3.2. General equilibrium, economies of scale, and imperfect competition
- 3.3. Challenges to the ascendency of equilibrium analysis: infidels, palace revolts, and true believers
- 3.4. Equilibrium Games
- Appendix: The capital theory debates and 'Marshall's theory'
- 4. Keynes' Marshallian Heritage and the Walrasian Eclipse
- 4.1. Marshall and Keynes
- 4.2. Keynes' General Theory
- 4.3. Walrasian interpretations
- 4.4. The neoclassical synthesis and beyond
- 5. Equilibrium Growth and Cumulative Causation
- 5.1. Adam Smith on economic progress
- 5.2. Equilibrium growth
- 5.3. 'New Growth Theory': old wine for new bottles?
- 5.4. Keynesian endogenous growth theory
- 5.5. Allyn Young, the traverse and cumulative causation
- 5.6. Cumulative causation and economic evolution
- 6. The Revitalisation of Marshall's Industrial Economics
- 6.1. Marshall's applied industrial economics
- 6.2. Post-Marshallian visions of industrial economics
- 6.3. The reawakening of interest in Marshall's industrial economics
- 7. Themes in Evolutionary Economics
- 7.1. Veblen and Schumpeter: two pioneering figures in evolutionary economics
- 7.2. Goodwin's dynamics
- 7.3. Biological evolution and evolutionary economics
- 7.4. Nelson and Winter and modern evolutionary economics
- 8. Marshall, Evolutionary Economics, and Post-Keynesian Theory
- 8.1. Marshall's economic biology and contemporary evolutionary economics
- 8.2. Marshall's 'reconciliation problem' and evolutionary economics
- 8.3. Long-period analysis and evolutionary economics
- 8.4. Evolutionary economics and Post-Keynesian economics
- 9. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
