The Social Science Imperialists

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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Inflation, accountants' procedures and company behaviour; 1. The quantitative effect of basing company taxation on replacement costs; 2. Pricing policies and inflation; 3. Pricing policies and earning rates; 4. The accountant in a Golden Age; 5. The measurement of the rate of profit and the bonus scheme for managers in the Soviet Union; Part II: Post-Keynesian economic theory; 6. A critique of Mr Kaldor's model of income distribution and economic growth

7. A two-sector model of the distribution of income and the level of employment in the short run8. Pricing and the investment decision; Part III: Salter's contributions, investment-decision rules, investment incentives and related econometric issues; 9. Review article of W.E.G. Salter, Productivity and Technical Change; 10. Biases in empirical estimates of the elasticities of substitution of C.E.S. production functions; 11. Investment-decision criteria, investment incentives and the choice of technique; Part IV: Sraffa's Production of Commodities and Marxian economics

12. A note on Mr Sraffa's sub-systems13. Mr Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities; 14. Can Marx survive Cambridge?; 15. Marshall, Sraffa and Keynes: incompatible bedfellows?; Part V: The capital theory controversies; 16. Capital theory: much ado about something; 17. The Cambridge controversies: old ways and new horizons - or dead end?; 18. The theoretical and social significance of the Cambridge controversies in the theory of capital: an evaluation; 19. Non-neoclassical capital theory; 20. On theories and policies; Part VI: Intellectual biographies

21. Eric Russell, 1921-77: a great Australian political economist22. Joan Robinson; 23. Occasional portraits of the founding Post-Keynesians: Lorie Tarshis (or Tarshis on Tarshis by Harcourt); Part VII: Conclusion: the social science imperialists; Bibliography; Index

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