This book contends that post Keynesian economics has its own methodological and didactic basis, and its realistic analysis is much-needed in the current economic and financial crisis. At a time when the original message of Keynes’ General Theory is no longer present in most university...

It is widely believed that the rate of profit across industrial sectors, while not in fact uniform as stipulated in the theory of prices of production, is independent of the sectoral organic composition of capital. It follows that the simple labour theory of value must be systematically in error...

This paper examines two aspects of Hayek's business cycle theory in the early 1930s: his methodological approach to the analysis of the cycle, and his substantive analysis of the role of changes in the 'structure of production' over the course of the cycle. The examination of the first aspect is...

The paper deals with Keynes's critique of Pigou, and takes issue with Nahid Aslanbeigui's recent attempt to "rehabilitate" the latter. I argue that Keynes made one significant mistake of interpretation, but that this by no means vitiaites his critique.

We make the argument that what failed in the USSR was not socialist planning as such, but a particular and definitely flawed variant of same, and suggest the outlines of an alternative system of planning. The paper is complementary to our 1993 book, "Towards a New Socialism."

Problems are identified with the transcendental argument that Lawson uses to make a case for realism in economics: this argument relies heavily upon an unproblematized conception of Free Will. Lawson's substantive conclusions are not vitiated, but the argument presented here suggests that he...

The collapse of previously existing socialism was due to causes embedded in its economic mechanism, which are not inherent in all possible socialisms. The article argues that Marxist economic theory, in conjunction with information technology, provides the basis on which a viable socialist...