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Empirical Post Keynesian Economics: Looking at the Real World
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Cloth ISBN: 978-0-7656-1328-8 USD: $99.95 |
Paper ISBN: 978-0-7656-1329-5 USD: $43.95 |
Information: 352pp. Tables, figures, references, index.
Publication Date: October 2006.
Description: This text highlights the major empirical questions and issues facing Post Keynesian economics today. Featuring contributions by leading Post Keynesian economists, it focuses on public policy and real-life analysis of this vibrant and dynamic economic theory.
In language that is accessible to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, professional economists, and public policy makers, each of the chapters takes on a specific issue of concern to all professional economists, provides empirical analysis of the issue, and then discusses the Post Keynesian view on the topic and contrasts it with the orthodox perspective. The topics covered are grouped into three main categories: empirical studies of consumption; empirical studies of business investment; and empirical studies of international economic relations.
Selected Contents:
List of Tables and Figures
1. Empirical Analysis and Post Keynesian Economics, Richard P.F. Holt and Steven Pressman
Part I. Empirical Studies of Distribution, Inequality, and Consumption
2. What Can Post Keynesian Economics Teach Us About Poverty? Steven Pressman
3. Unemployment, Inequality, and the Policy of Europe: 1984-2000, James K. Galbraith and Enrique Garcilazo
4. The Racial U-Curve in U.S. Residential Credit Markets in the 1990s: Empirical Evidence from a Post Keynesian World, Gary A. Dymski and Carolyn B. Aldana
5. An Analysis of Credit Card Debt Default, Robert H. Scott, III
Part II. Empirical Studies of Business Investment
6. The Dynamics of Innovation and Investment, with Application to Australia, 1984-1998, Jerry Courvisanos
7. Kalecki's Investment Theory: A Critical Realist Approach, Anthony J. Laramie, Douglas Mair, and Anne G. Miller
8. Bubbles or Whirlpools? An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Speculation and Financial Uncertainty on Investment, Michelle Baddeley
9. An Analysis of the Shrinking Supply of Equity and the U.S. Stock Market Boom: Does Supply Matter? Lawrance L. Evans, Jr.
Part III. Empirical Studies of International Economic Relations
10. The Effect of Distribution on Accumulation, Capacity Utilization, and Employment: Testing the Profit-led Hypothesis for Turkey, Özlem Onaran and Engelbert Stockhammer
11. Growth Under External Constraints in Brazil: A Post Keynesian Approach, Frederico Jayme, Jr.
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Comment(s): "This exciting collection of essays is an impressive beginning to the realization of Alfred Eichner's vision of completing the Post Keynesian paradigm by mounting a research program to provide empirical support for its theoretical conclusions and policy recommendations. Unlike the empiricism of the neoclassical mainstream, which considers prediction as the sine qua non of scientific methodology, Post Keynesian empiricism is concerned with explaining and validating critical economic relationships as a basis for public policy. In furthering the 'third stage' of the Post Keynesian paradigm, the essays in this collection will enable heterodox economic thinkers of all persuasions to introduce new leading edge research into the classroom." -- Ingrid H. Rima, Temple University
Review(s): [This book] is not just a report on what has been done, but a challenge regarding what should be done. All in all, this is a nice collection. ...This volume is appropriate to economists and graduate students. Journal of Economic Issues
    
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