Synopses & Reviews
The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest gathers up the threads ofthe last decadeof the author's 28 years in Cambridge. The essays include autobiography, theory, review articles, surveys, policy, intellectual biographies and tributes, and general essays.
About the Author
G. C. HARCOURT is Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Cambridge (1998), Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge (1998), UK,and Professor Emeritus, Adelaide (1988), is now a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the School of Economics, UNSW, Australia.He is the author and editor of many books, articles and chapters in books. His books include Some Cambridge Controversies, The Theory of Capital, The Structure of Post-Keynesian Economics, (with Prue Kerr) Joan Robinson and nine volumes of selected essays.
Table of Contents
PART I: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist
PART II: THEORETICAL ESSAYS
The Debates on the Representative Firm and Increasing Returns
Paul Samuelson on Karl Marx
"Capital-reversing and Reswitching"
Whatever Happened to the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies?
The Relevance of the Cambridge-Cambridge Controversies in Capital Theory for Econometric Practice
The Harrod Model of Growth and Some Early Reactions to it
On Mark Perlman and Joseph Schumpeter
PART III: REVIEW ARTICLES
Monsters and Morals: Review of David Jenkins
On Paul Krugman on Maynard Keynes' "General Theory"
PART IV: SURVEYS
Joan Robinson and her Circle
Cambridge Economic Tradition
PART V: POLICY
New Labor and Constitutional Reform
The Economic Policies of Gordon Brown and the Treasury
'Chickens coming home to roost'
PART VI: INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHIES AND TRIBUTES
John Cornwall
Wilfred Edward Graham Salter
John Richard Wells
Alister Sutherland
PART VII: GENERAL ESSAYS
"Despised and Rejected"
Speech to Commerce Graduates