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Social Fairness and Economics : Economic Essays in the Spirit of Duncan Foley by Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai, Thomas Michl, Lance Taylor, Thomas R. Michl is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal contributions to a wide variety of areas. Foley’s work cannot be easily classified, but one thread that runs through it is a critical examination (along both ethical and analytical lines) of conventional neoclassical economic theory, particularly involving general equilibrium theories of value and money. Foley was a pioneer of complexity economics as well, which adopts approaches to these questions drawn from natural sciences, so the collection therefore has an interdisciplinary quality that will interest a wide variety of readers. Some of the chapters are intellectual biographies that contextualize and identify Foley’s contributions to Keynesian macroeconomics, Marxian value theory, and complexity theory in economics. The topics covered include the economics of complexity; the ethics of general equilibrium theory; the economics of climate change; applications of Keynesian, Marxian and Ricardian political economy; and money and financial crises. The collection should be useful to scholars who work in various economic traditions critical of the curren

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Author

Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai, Thomas Michl, Lance Taylor, Thomas R. Michl

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283924085

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Business