The aim of this research is to study compensation strategies for Chief Executive Officers (CEO) from various economic, political and symbolic perspectives. A theoretical model was developed to study the hypothetical influence of several phenomena suggested by theoretical work on executive...

This important volume brings together 22 major essays written by A.P. Thirlwall over the last 30 years in the field of macroeconomics, and in particular on multiplier analysis, unemployment, inflation, growth and the balance of payments.

This paper deals with the relationship between post-Keynesian and behavioural economics. I begin by responding critically to Paul Davidson's claim that Keynes was the first behavioural economist. Then I discuss some recent work in behavioural macroeconomics, which reveals some important...

In a monetary economy capital is a fund. This idea is captured by the circuit of capital. We define a circuit for fixed capital and argue that it is closed when the fund that initiates it is recovered in a present value sense. The circuit of newly invested fixed capital must be equivalent to the...

Das ifo Institut hat 1995 rund 1200 westdeutsche Industrie- und Bauunternehmen befragt, um alternative Modelle zum unternehmerischen Preisanpassungsverhalten empirisch zu überprüfen. Die Auswertung zeigte nicht nur, daß in beiden Bereichen ein beträchtlicher Teil der Preise rigide ist, sie...

Money has always been something of an embarrassment to economic theory. Everyone agrees that it is important; indeed, much of macroeconomic policy discussion makes no sense without reference to money. Yet, for the most part, theory fails to provide a good account for it. Indeed in the...

This paper outlines what are the essential features of the theory of the monetary circuit. It provides both theoretical and historical foundations to this approach and contrasts it with alternative conceptions of money, including the neoclassical and other heterodox approaches (in particular,...