The paper surveys the criticisms of general equilibrium theory advanced by Sraffian authors in the last twenty-five years. It is argued that an important change undergone by general equilibrium theory, from long-period versions to neo-Walrasian versions, has made it very difficult for...

The paper argues that the several theories used to support the traditional thesis of a dependence of investment on the interest rate are all unconvincing. The following theories are reviewed: pre-Keynesian, Keynes, array of opportunities, Lerner, Jorgenson, adjustment costs, Tobin's q. It is...

This is a review article on Burgstaller's book "Property and Prices" (1995). It is argued that the book misrepresents the common ground and the differences between the classical and the Walrasian approaches to value and distribution, and furthermore that many of the author's claims, e.g. that...

The frequently voiced opinion that reswitching and reverse capital deepening are sufficiently improbable phenomena as to allow the economic theorist to assume that they cannot happen is criticised by 1) showing that D'Ippolito's calculations of the probability of reverse capital deepening are...

This book argues that the shift in general equilibrium theory, from its early long-period to the modern very-short-period versions, has had very important consequences which are insufficiently appreciated by large parts of the economics profession. This shift has produced new difficulties, and...

Gintis (2007, 'The Dynamics of General Equilibrium'', Economic Journal 117 (523) , 1280–1309) provides an agent-based model of a Walrasian economy where the tâtonnement is replaced by imitation. His simulations show that the economy converges to the Walrasian equilibrium. Gintis concludes...

This is a comment on Gintis (2007, 'The Dynamics of General Equilibrium', Economic Journal 117 (523) , 1280–1309), who provides an agent-based model of a Walrasian economy where the tâtonnement is replaced by imitation. His simulations show that the economy converges to the Walrasian...

In a series of recent papers professor Mark Blaug accuses the Formalist Revolution of the 1950s of having greatly damaged economic science by burying the conception of 'competition as a process' in favour of a conception of 'competition as an end-state', incompatible with realistic studies of...