Economist With a Public Purpose

Essays in Honour of John Kenneth Galbraith
Herausgeber: Keaney, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

Galbraith's arguments are discussed by a group of economists in regards to current controversies and problems. Topics covered range from globalization and the role of the state to redistributive economic policies. The result is a collection that pays tribute to one of the most prominent, and yet still contemporarily relevant, economists of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780415758178
• ISBN-10: 0415758173
• Artikelnr.: 40477823

Autorenporträt

Michael Keaney

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 John Kenneth Galbraith: economist with a public purpose
2 The useful economist
3 The making of a heterodox economist: the impact of Henry S.Dennison on the economic thought of John Kenneth Galbraith
4 Social capital and political economy: Galbraith on states and groups
5 The role of the state in the good society
6 From Veblen to Galbraith: what is the essence of institutional economics?
7 The virtues of their defects and the defects of their virtues: reflections on John Kenneth Galbraith and Thorstein Veblen
8 The economist and business
9 Galbraith
uncertainty and the modern corporation
10 Progress denied: the unravelling of the New Industrial State
11 Galbraith
globalism and the good life: making the best of the capitalist predicament
12 The New Deal and 'domesticated Keynesianism' in America
13 Adam Smith on the mercantile system: the unnecessary loss of America?
Index