Economic theory and economic thought : essays in honour of Ian Steedman

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Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 107

Includes bibliographical references and index

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I The significance of time; 1 Consumption takes time: Some implications for happiness; 2 Exploitation takes time; 3 How to give up 'wrestling with time': The case of horizontal innovation models; Part II The theory of international trade; 4 The notion of national competitiveness in a global economy; 5 Samuelson, Sraffa and Steedman on comparative advantage; 6 Complete specialization in classical economics; 7 Normative trade theory under Gossenian assumptions

8 Trade equilibrium amongst growing economies: Some extensionsPart III Staffian themes; 9 Families of strongly curved and of nearly linear wage curves: A contribution to the debate about the surrogate production function; 10 "Perverse cases" and the debate on neo-classical theory of distribution: Recent contributions on an open issue; 11 'Capital reversals' in a limited- substitutability technology framework; 12 Testing whether the "capital reversal" syndrome mandates deadweight loss in competitive intertemporal equilibrium; 13 Some notes on the notion of production prices

14 Sraffa and the labour theory of value: A few observations15 On some puzzles in rent theory; 16 Malfunction of a market in a transaction of waste: A reason for the necessity of an upstream policy in waste management; Part IV History of economic thought and methodology; 17 Piero Sraffa in his family: 1898 to 1916; 18 Sraffa's great passion: The postmistress, the traveller's guide, the chess- player, and the fair Circassian; 19 Albert Schäffle's critique of socialism; 20 Henry Sidgwick and economic socialism

21 Does economic growth ultimately lead to a nobler life?: A mathematical formulation of Mill's stationary state22 On Marshallian evolutionary dynamics, entry and exit; 23 Collective dynamics of Faustian agents; Ian Steedman's publications; Index

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