The Financial Crisis of 2008, and the Great Recession in its wake, have shaken up macroeconomics. The paradigm of the "New" Neoclassical Synthesis, which seemed to provide a robust framework of analysis for short-run macro not long ago, fails to capture key elements of the recent crisis. This...

Despite their image as free traders, six leading British classical and neoclassical economists formulated a valid theoretical argument for tariffs. They showed that a suitably small tariff could, under certain conditions, benefit the levying country by improving its terms of trade. They also...

This paper briefly outlines some characteristics of the Sraffian critique of Neoclassical economic theory. The main goal is to highlight some important issues related to theoretical and logical errors of the mainstream theory, such as those arising from the debate over the theory of capital in...