The Economics of Imperfect Competition and Employment: Joan Robinson and Beyond

Front Matter....Pages i-lx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Towards an Integration of Imperfect Competition and Macrodynamics: Kalecki, Keynes, Joan Robinson....Pages 3-145
Involuntary Unemployment and Imperfect Competition: A Game-theoretic Macromodel....Pages 146-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
The Cambridge Background to Imperfect Competition....Pages 169-196
Imperfect Competition After Fifty Years....Pages 197-211
Competition and the Number of Participants: Lessons of Edgeworth’s Theorem....Pages 212-224
Is Imperfect Competition Empirically Empty?....Pages 225-240
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Competitive Equilibrium in a Market with Decentralized Trade and Strategic Behavior: An Introduction....Pages 243-259
Entry and Exit....Pages 260-304
Effects of Entry on Profits under Monopolistic Competition....Pages 305-364
An Essay on Price Discrimination....Pages 365-386
Competitive Discriminatory Pricing....Pages 387-406
Front Matter....Pages 407-407
Two Applications of Characteristics Theory....Pages 409-436
Price-Quality Competition in Oligopolistic Interdependence....Pages 437-461
Who Benefits from Unemployment?....Pages 462-481
Front Matter....Pages 483-483
Monopolistic Competition and the Capital Market....Pages 485-507
Competition, Non-linear Pricing and Rationing in Credit Markets....Pages 508-534
Front Matter....Pages 535-535
Testimony I: An interview....Pages 537-553
Testimony II: An Interview....Pages 554-568
Testimony III: An Interview....Pages 569-581
Profit Sharing — A New ‘Keynesian’ Alternative? An Interview....Pages 582-595
Front Matter....Pages 597-597
The Paradox of Money in the Economics of Joan Robinson....Pages 599-612
Money and Finance in Joan Robinson’s Works....Pages 613-630
Joan Robinson and the New Classical Economists as Critics of Keynesian Economics....Pages 631-645
Front Matter....Pages 647-647
On Inventories and the Business Cycle....Pages 649-676
Sunspots and Incomplete Financial Markets: The Leading Example....Pages 677-693
Debts, Deficits and Interest Rates....Pages 694-708
Debt and Deficit and Other Illusions....Pages 709-720
On the Goals of Economic Policy....Pages 721-737
Front Matter....Pages 739-739
Economic Cooperation as a Means of Improving East-West Relations....Pages 741-748
The Economics of Warfare: Joan Robinson’s Challenge....Pages 749-768
Back Matter....Pages 769-775