Essays in the theory of economic growth / Joan Robinson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, England : Macmillan; New York, NY: St Martin's Press, 1963Edition: Reprint (1963) of first edition (1962)Description: 137 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.1
LOC classification:
  • HB 171 .R628 1963
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Partial contents:
I. Normal Prices -- Supply and demand -- Wages and profits -- A model for the future -- Conclusion -- II. A model of accumulation -- Closed and open models -- Choosing a model -- Desired and possible growth -- The role of thriftiness -- Instability -- Wages and prices -- Natural resources -- Inherent vice -- Appendix -- III. A model of technical progress -- The model -- Classification -- A golden age -- Biased progress -- Unsteady progress -- Surplus and scarcity of labour -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- IV. A neo-neoclassical Theorem -- Introduction -- The degree of mechanisation -- Technical progress and obsolescence -- Social product -- Conclusion
Summary: "The essays in this volume might be regarded as an introduction rather than as a supplement to my Accumulation of Capital. That book was found excessively difficult. The main fault, I think, lay in too terse an exposition of the main ideas, particularly in Chapter 8, and a failure to mark sufficiently sharply the departure from the confused but weighty corpus of traditional teaching that we are required to make when we adopt a Keynesian approach to long-period problems. I offer the present volume with apologies to readers whose heads ached over the earlier one." -- from the author's preface.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Karl H. Niebyl Collection HB 171 .R628 1963 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML20060042

Includes index.

I. Normal Prices -- Supply and demand -- Wages and profits -- A model for the future -- Conclusion -- II. A model of accumulation -- Closed and open models -- Choosing a model -- Desired and possible growth -- The role of thriftiness -- Instability -- Wages and prices -- Natural resources -- Inherent vice -- Appendix -- III. A model of technical progress -- The model -- Classification -- A golden age -- Biased progress -- Unsteady progress -- Surplus and scarcity of labour -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- IV. A neo-neoclassical Theorem -- Introduction -- The degree of mechanisation -- Technical progress and obsolescence -- Social product -- Conclusion

"The essays in this volume might be regarded as an introduction rather than as a supplement to my Accumulation of Capital. That book was found excessively difficult. The main fault, I think, lay in too terse an exposition of the main ideas, particularly in Chapter 8, and a failure to mark sufficiently sharply the departure from the confused but weighty corpus of traditional teaching that we are required to make when we adopt a Keynesian approach to long-period problems. I offer the present volume with apologies to readers whose heads ached over the earlier one." -- from the author's preface.

Donation from Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.

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