Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of Malcolm Sawyer

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Function of Firms: Alternative Views....Pages 3-19
Industrial Structure and the Macro Economy....Pages 20-37
Unemployment, Power Relations, and the Quality of Work....Pages 38-53
The Problem of Young People Not in Employment, Education or Training: Is There a ‘Neet’ Solution?....Pages 54-71
The Business of Macro Imbalances: Comparing ‘Gluts’ in Savings, Money and Profits....Pages 72-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
A Critical Appraisal of the New Consensus Macroeconomics....Pages 99-115
Bringing Together the Horizontalist and the Structuralist Analyses of Endogenous Money....Pages 116-133
Economic Growth and Income Distribution: Kalecki, the Kaleckians and Their Critics....Pages 134-152
The Influence of Michał Kalecki on Joan Robinson’s Approach to Economics....Pages 153-169
Shared Ideas Amid Mutual Incomprehension: Kalecki and Cambridge....Pages 170-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Is There a Role for Active Fiscal Policies? Supply-Side and Demand-Side Effects of Fiscal Policies....Pages 191-207
Fiscal Policy and Private Investment in Mexico....Pages 208-227
A Keynes-Kalecki Model of Cyclical Growth with Agent-Based Features....Pages 228-250
Unsurprising to Keynes, Shocking to Economists: The Normalisation of Capital Controls in the Global Financial Crisis....Pages 251-267
Regulating Wall Street: Exploring the Political Economy of the Possible....Pages 268-285
Back Matter....Pages 286-296