"Symposium guest edited by Tiago Mata"--Front cover Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part I. A symposium on 50 years of the Union for Radical Political Economics -- Introduction: the untold story of left economics -- Macroeconomic consequences of peace: American radical economists and the problem of military Keynesianism, 1938-1975 -- American radical economists in Mao's China: from hopes to disillusionment -- In search of the socialist subject: radical political economy and the study of moral incentives in the third world -- The radical roots of feminism in economics -- Part II. Essays -- Arthur Lewis and the classical foundations of development economics -- Adam Smith's answer to Arthur Lewis -- Lewis's breakthrough publications of 1954 and 1955: a little understood perspective -- Arthur Lewis and the classical foundations of "development": economic history and the institutional change -- Generalizing Lewis: unlimited supplies of labour in the advanced capitalist world -- On the application of the Lewis model to China -- Lewis and Kuznets on economic growth and income inequality -- Why Lewis and classical economics? -- Part III. From the vault -- Introduction to Alvin H. Hansen: the contribution of Professor John R. Commons to American economics -- The contribution of Professor John R. Commons to American economics.
Summary:
Volume 37A of Research in the history of economic thought and methodology features a symposium edited by Tiago Mata celebrating 50 years of the Union for Radical Political Economics, as well as an essay by Mauro Boianovsky, accompanied by a series of reflections from esteemed colleagues, on Arthur Lewis and the classical foundation of development economics. The volume also includes an important new archival contribution (edited and introduced by Malcolm Rutherford) from the papers of Alvin Hansen in which the famous Harvard economist reflects on the contributions of his teacher John R. Commons on the occasion of the latter's 70th birthday in November 1932.
Series:
Research in the history of economic thought and methodology ; volume 37A
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