Contents

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
   
Introduction
LANCE TAYLOR, ARMON REZAI AND THOMAS MICHL
   
Personal remarks: Festschrift conference, April 21, 2012
DUNCAN K. FOLEY
   
PARTI
Socio-economic ideology and methodology
   
1 Keynes and Marx, Duncan and me
MICHAEL J. PIORE
   
2 The sophisticated Legislator meets Adam’s fallacy: a cultural–institutional market failure
SAMUEL BOWLES
   
3 The complex evolution of Duncan K. Foley as a complexity economist
J. BARKLEY ROSSER, JR.
   
4 Applications of statistical mechanics to economics: entropic origin of the probability distributions of money, income, and energy consumption
VICTOR M. YAKOVENKO
   
PART II
Neoclassical economics: dispersed and decentralized exchange
   
5 Class in catallaxy
A. J. JULIUS
   
6 Positional goods, climate change and the social returns to investment
LEILA DAVIS AND PETER SKOTT
   
7 Markets with Black Swans
GRACIELA CHICHILNISKY
   
8 Equilibrium vs. market efficiency
JOSEPH L. MCCAULEY
   
9 Foley’s Thesis, Negishi’s method, existence proofs and computation
K. VELA VELUPILLAI
   
PART III
Classical political economy: growth and distribution
   
10 Rate of profit and crisis in the US economy: a class perspective
SIMON MOHUN
   
11 The sources of profitability
PETER FLASCHEL, NILS FRÖHLICH AND ROBERTO VENEZIANI
   
12 On the “vexata questio of value”: Ricardo, Marx and Sraffa
HEINZ D. KURZ AND NERI SALVADORI
   
13 Duncan Foley’s circuit of capital model for an open economy
MARTÍN ABELES
   
14 Production, circuits of capital, and flows and stocks in national accounts
ANWAR SHAIKH
   
15 Endogenous technological change in Classical–Marxian models of growth and distribution
AMITAVA KRISHNA DUTT
   
16 Macroeconomics of Keynesian and Marxian inspirations: toward a synthesis
GÉRARD DUMÉNIL AND DOMINIQUE LÉVY
   
17 A model of fiscal and monetary policy
THOMAS MICHL
   
18 Consequences of downsizing in U.S. manufacturing, 1967 to 1997
EDWARD N. WOLFF
   
PART IV
Complexity: barriers and bounds to rationality
   
19 Market ecology and the economics of crisis
RAJIV SETHI
   
20 Market complexity and the nature of crises in financial markets
PHILIP MIROWSKI
   
21 The inherent hierarchy of money
PERRY MEHRLING
   
Index