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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
1: Classical economics and modern theory
An introduction
References
Part I: Classical theory and its interpretations
2: Understanding ‘classical’ economics
1: Introduction
2: ‘Rational’ versus ‘historical reconstruction’
3: The ‘core-periphery’ metaphor
4: Different spheres of analysis in classical economics and the role of formalization
5: The ‘classical’ approach to the theory of value and distribution
6: Independent variables are still variables
7: Blaug’s alternative conceptualization of the ‘core’
8: Conclusion
Appendix: claims and contentions by Mark Blaug that are obviously false
Acknowledgements
References
3: ‘Classical’ roots of input–output analysis.
1: Introduction
2: Contributions prior to the writings of the physiocrats: Petty and Cantillon
3: François Quesnay and the Tableau Économique
4: Achille-Nicolas Isnard
5: Robert Torrens
6: Karl Marx
7: Vladimir Karpovich Dmitriev and Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz
8: Georg von Charasoff
9: Wassily Leontief
10: Robert Remak
11: Concluding remarks
References
4: Friedrich BenediktWilhelm Hermann on capital and profits*
1: Introduction
2: The aim and structure of Staatswirthschaftliche Untersuchungen
3: Basic concepts of Hermann’s analysis
4: What is profitable is ‘productive’
5: Hermann’s notion of ‘capital’
6: Price theory
7: Theory of profits
8: Hermann’s criticism of Senior
9: Innovations and technological change
10: Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
5: Burgstaller on classical and neoclassical theory*
References
Part II: Growth theory and the classical tradition
6: Theories of ‘endogenous’ growth in historical perspective*
1: Introduction
2: Adam Smith on growth
3: David Ricardo on diminishing returns
4: Linear classical models of production
5: A typology of cases
6: Models of exogenous growth
7: The ‘new’ models of endogenous growth
8: Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
7: What could the ‘new’ growth theory teach Smith or Ricardo? *
1: Introduction
2: They and us
3: Scope
4: Method
5: Consumption, saving and investment
6: Production
7: A falling rate of profit
8: Solow’s model
9: ‘AK’ models
10: Physical and human capital
11: Nonsubstitution theorem
12: A convex technology with returns to capital bounded from below
13: Increasing returns to capital bounded from above
14: Human capital formation and externalities
15: Research and development and endogenous technical change
16: Conclusion
17: Acknowledgements
Appendix
8: A linear multisector model of ‘endogenous’ growth and the problem of capital*
1: Introduction
2: ‘Classical’ and ‘neoclassical’ approaches
3: Setting the stage
4: The model
5: Concluding remarks
Appendix
9: A linear multisector model of ‘endogenous’ growth
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
References
Part III: On Sraffa’s contribution
10: Sraffa and the mathematicians*
1: Introduction
2: Sraffa’s training in mathematics
3: Sraffa’s meetings with his ‘mathematical friends’
4: Reading the manuscript and the proofs
5: Frank Ramsey
6: AlisterWatson’s help during the writing of Production of Commodities
7: AlisterWatson’s help at the time of the corrections of the galley-proofs
8: Excursus: Harry Johnson’s correction of a slip
9: Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
11: Sraffa and von Neumann*
1: Introduction
2: Mathematical differences and conceptual equivalences2
3: The development of Sraffa’s analysis
4: Champernowne’s commentary
5: Sraffa on von Neumann
6: Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
12: Production theory*
1: Introduction
2: Two basic commodities
3: Choice of technique
Theorem 1
4: Fixed capital
5: Capital utilization
6: Concluding remarks
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
References
Part IV: Exhaustible resources and the long-period method
13: Classical economics and the problem of exhaustible resources*
1: The corn–guano model with a given real wage rate
2: The question of the ‘real rate of profit’
3: On theoretical ‘approximations’
4: On Hotelling’s rule6
References
14: Economic dynamics in a simple model with exhaustible resources and a given real wage rate*
1: Introduction
2: The model and its assumptions
3: A preliminary result
4: The complete analysis and the main results
5: Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Part V: Criticism of neoclassical theory
15: Reverse capital deepening and the numeraire*
1: Introduction
2: Preliminaries
3: The meaning of taking the ‘quantity of capital’ as given in value terms
4: Stability of equilibrium and numéraire
5: Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
16: Reswitching – simplifying a famous example*
1: Introduction
2: Preliminaries
3: Simplifying the example
4: The new example
5: Conclusion
References
17: Franklin Fisher on aggregation*
1:
2:
3:
Reference
18: Wicksell and the problem of the ‘missing’ equation*
1: Alternative closures
2: The common element in the suggested interpretations
3: Wicksell’s “static” method vs the stationary state
4: Wicksell’s supply-and-demand theory of distribution and the problem of “capital”
5: Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
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