New Post-Autistic Economics Books
How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
Erik S. Reinert
Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics
Marc Lavoie
This book offers an easy to read introduction to post-Keynesian economics,
showing that there is an alternative to neoclassical economics and its
free-market economic policies. Post-Keynesian economics is founded on realistic
assumptions and stylized facts, such as interest targeting by central banks or
constant average variable costs in manufacturing and services. The author shows
how these more realistic foundations give rise to macroeconomic implications
that are entirely different from those of received wisdom with regards to
employment, output growth, inflation and monetary theory. For instance, the
author demonstrates that higher minimum wages or real wages can increase both
labour employment and the corporate profit rates, and that faster output growth
need not lead to higher inflation.
Economics in Real Time :A Theoretical Reconstruction
John McDermott
This book offers a new model for contemporary economic behavior
that accounts for changes since neoclassical and Marxian microeconomics were
formulated over a century ago. By incorporating real time into the analysis of
sales and purchases, the phenomena of product innovation, advertising and
distribution, the provision of consumer credit, and, ultimately, the production
of a changing workforce all become intrinsic to microeconomic analysis rather
than being treated as extraneous to fundamental theory.
Maria Csanádi
”This is ..probably the richest comparative study we will ever see of state
socialism, its internal logic and its
consequences.”
Valerie Bunce, Chair, International Studies,
Department of Government, Cornell Universtiy
”This book… has a great explanatory power over the different lives of
different party-states in Asia and Europe”
Prof. Jinglian Wu, Senior Research Fellow,
Development Research Center of the State Council, China
”The kind of comparison that this author dares to work with simply does not
exist in any of the rich, extant literature
on post-communist transitology”
Peter J. Katzenstein, International Studies,
Department of Government, Cornell University
Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics
Editor: Morris Altman, University of Saskatchewan
At a time when both scholars and the public demand explanations and answers to
key economic problems that conventional approaches have failed to resolve, this
groundbreaking handbook of original works by leading behavioral
economists offers the first comprehensive articulation of behavioral
economics theory. Borrowing from the findings of psychologists, sociologists,
political scientists, legal scholars, and biologists, among others, behavioral economists find that intelligent individuals
often tend not to behave as effectively or efficiently in their economic
decisions as long held by conventional wisdom. The manner in which individuals
actually do behave critically depends on psychological, institutional,
cultural, and even biological considerations.
See the link for detailed information.
Reintroducing Macroeconomics :A Critical
Approach
Author: Steven Mark Cohn, Knox College
This lively introduction to heterodox economics provides a balanced critique of
the standard introductory macroeconomic curriculum. In clear and accessible
prose, it explains many of the key principles that underlie a variety of
alternative theoretical perspectives (including institutionalist
economics, radical economics, Post Keynesian economics, feminist economics,
ecological economics, Marxist economics, social economics, and socioeconomics).
Because the book’s structure parallels the chapters and subject matter
presented in a typical introductory macroeconomics textbook, Reintroducing
Macroeconomics provides readers with a running commentary on the standard
approach, while simultaneously introducing them to a broader range of ideas
about the causes and appropriate policy responses to a wide range of common
economic problems.
See the link for detailed information.
Empirical Post Keynesian
Economics; Looking at the Real World
Editor: Richard P.F. Holt, Southern Oregon University
Steven Pressman, Monmouth University
This text highlights the major empirical questions and issues facing Post
Keynesian economics today. Featuring contributions by leading Post Keynesian
economists, it focuses on public policy and real life analysis of this vibrant
and dynamic economic theory.
In language that is accessible to upper level undergraduate and graduate
students, professional economists, and public policy makers, each of the
chapters takes on a specific issue of concern to all professional economists,
provides empirical analysis of the issue, and then discusses the Post Keynesian
view on the topic and contrasts it with the orthodox perspective. The topics
covered are grouped into three main categories: empirical studies of
consumption; empirical studies of business investment; and empirical studies of
international economic relations.
See the link for detailed information.
Reclaiming Marx's
"Capital": A Refutation of the Myth of Inconsistency
Andrew Kliman
250 pages, copyright 2007.
Published by Lexington Books, a division of Rowman
& Littlefield.
Part of Lexington's Raya Dunayevskaya
Series in Marxism and Humanism.
List price: $26.95.
ONLY $22.91 AT PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE: www.lexingtonbooks.com.
(European purchasers may pay in British pounds or euros.)
For detailed information: ReclaimingMarx.doc
Keynes's
General Theory, the Rate of Interest and 'Keynesian' Economics
Geoff Tily
http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403996288
The
Economics of Keynes in Historical Context
Michael S. Lawlor
http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=0333977173
The
Structure of Post-Keynesian Economics: The Core Contributions of the Pioneers
G. C. Harcourt
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780511247613
Germany's
Economic Performance: From Unification to Euroization
Jens Hölscher
http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403999503
Successes
and Failures of Economic Transition: The European Experience
Hubert Gabrisch and Jens Hölscher
http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403934932
Strategic Arena Switching in
International Trade Negotiations
Wolfgang Blaas
and Joachim Becker (eds.)
Ashgate 2007
Since the 1970s global rule-making with respect to international trade has
increased in importance. Political and academic attention has been focused
either on global institutions like the IMF, the World
Bank, the WTO and UN organisations, or on regional
blocs like the EU or NAFTA. As negotiations take
place in different international arenas, these arenas themselves take on added
strategic significance, with agendas pursued and switched from one arena to
another, should one route be blocked. While dominant actors have sought to use
arena switching to their advantage, subordinate actors have begun to reactivate
alternative arenas of negotiation in order to pursue their different agendas.
This book employs a multi-level and multi-arena perspective in order to analyse
global rule-making in international trade. It seeks to explain why actors -
state actors and non-state actors - prefer particular arenas. It deals with the
question of which institutional designs serve the aims of specific groups best
and how the rules of the different arenas are related (cont.)
Marxist Perspectives on South
Korea in the Global Economy
Martin Hart-Landsberg, Seongjin
Jeong and Richard Westra
This volume brings together work by international scholars to provide a unique
analysis of the past, present and possible future trajectory of Korea's
political economy from a distinctly Marxist perspective.
The volume differentiates the Marxian approach to the political economy of
Korean development from the Keynesian, social democratic approach that
currently dominates the critical literature. In doing so the volume provides a
unique view of the development of the South Korean Economy.
https://www.ashgate.com/shopping/title.asp?key1=&key2=&orig=results&isbn=0%207546%204816%208
Time
and Space in Economics
Asada, Toichiro, Ishikawa, Toshiharu Springer Verlag (Tokyo) 2007
In August 2005, a small but important conference took place at Chuo University
in Tokyo, Japan. This international conference, the Chuo Meeting on Economics
of Time and Space 2005 (Chuo METS 05), aimed to enrich the respective
disciplines of the economics of time (dynamic
economics) and the economics of space (spatial economics) and to expand their
applicability in the real world. The chapters contained herein are based on the
papers presented at that conference. Part I of the book deals with Keynesian macrodynamics, which allows for the existence of
involuntary unemployment; Part II focuses on nonlinear dynamics, with an
emphasis on the complexity that is generated as a result of the nonlinearity of
the system; Part III consists of an empirical analysis of spatial economics
through geographical relationships with economic activity; and Part IV analyzes
the effects of spatial competition between economic organizations or agents on
economic performance in a region.
Poverty & Policy in
Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life
Dennis Raphael, Canadian Scholars' Press,
coming March 2007
This book is unlike any other. Poverty and Policy in Canada provides a unique, interdisciplinary
perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of
Canadians. This original volume considers a range of issues that will be of
great interest to a variety of audiences - Social Work, Health Sciences,
Sociology, Political Science, Policy Studies, Nursing, Education, Psychology,
and the general public.
Central issues include the definitions of poverty and means of measuring it in
wealthy, industrialized nations such as Canada; the causes of poverty - both
situational and societal; the health and social implications of poverty for
individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and means of addressing its
incidence and improving its effects. Particular emphasis has been placed on the
lived experiences of poverty throughout the book.
Money
and Markets
Giacomin & M.C.
Marcuzzo (eds), London: Routledge,
forthcoming (Spring 2007)
This book brings together 14 essays by leading authors in the field of
economics to look at the relationship between money and markets thoughout economic theory and history, thus providing a key
to understanding important issues in monetary theory and other important
debates in contemporary economics.
For detailed information: 00_Money and Markets778_pre-2.pdf
Socialism
after Hayek by Theodore A. Burczak
http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=93585
The University of Michigan Press, 2006. Advances
in Heterodox Economics.
The opening chapter of the book outlines
Hayek’s economic and social theory in what Burczak
defines as an “applied epistemological postmodernism (p. 1).” Central to
Hayek’s postmodern economics is the human/economic
problem or what is later defined, and used throughout the book as the knowledge
problem (cont.)
Capitalism
with derivatives : a political economy of financial derivatives, capital and
class
Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty
New York : Palgrave
Macmillan, 2006
The New Development Economics: After The Washington
Consensus
Edited by Jomo K. S. and Ben Fine
Tulika Books, New Delhi, and Zed Books, London, 2006.
http://zedbooks.co.uk/book.asp?bookdetail=3689
Development Economics emerged in the 1950s and, during its first quarter
century, evolved in the context of both the Cold War and de-colonisation. The
ascendance of free market conservatism in the West in the early 1980s was
followed by the consolidation of the counter-revolution against the “Old”
Development Economics, together with a corresponding promotion of neo-liberal
economic policies that came to be known as the Washington Consensus.
Over the last decade or more, reaction against the Washington Consensus has
gathered momentum, pioneered within mainstream economics by those who emphasise
institutions and market imperfections, as opposed to the virtues of the market.
The chapters in this book provide expert and critical, but readable and up to
date, expositions of this “New” Development Economics.
A longer view of development economic thought is provided on the topics
covered. Considerable emphasis is placed on the extent to which the insights of
earlier thought on development have been abandoned. As such, the volume
provides a critical introductory survey of the New Development Economics,
invaluable to all interested in Economics and Development Studies for academic,
campaigning and policy purposes.
Economia
Geoff Davies
ABC Books, 498pp, (pb)
Review by Bruce Elder
From the Sydney Morning Herald
Everyone now knows that economics is a pseudo-science and that economists, in
the words of the late Alistair Cooke, are "varieties of
necromancers". Still, there are few books that set out clearly why modern
economic theory is humbug. This remarkable book -- which systematically
pillories modern economic concepts, from globalism to
laissez-faire economics -- has been written by a senior fellow at the
Australian National University whose field of expertise is geophysics. A
geophysicist writing about economics? Well, better than an economist
writing about economics. If you are depressed whenever you hear an
economic argument that common sense tells you is rubbish, then this is the book
for you. Davies dissects modern economics and intellligently
argues that it is possible to create a new economic system that will benefit
society. This may be utopia, but it is utopia beautifully argued.
Geoff Davies turns
his critical scientific gaze on contemporary economic orthodoxy and finds it
deeply deficient. His work makes a strong case for a radical reconstruction of
economic arrangements if we are to live more fruitfully and harmoniously.
- Frank Stilwell, Professor of Political
Economy, University of Sydney.
Imagine a much more equal and inclusive society than we have now. It has
old-fashioned family values, solid local communities, and full employment in an
efficient and sustainable market economy with a debt-free money supply and no
executive plunder. Impossible? Perhaps. But Geoff Davies' project is
distinguished by such commonsense, hard science, practicality, surprise, fine
writing and expert contempt for orthodox economics, it's a joy to read for
visionaries and sceptics alike.
- Hugh Stretton