Analytical Political Economy / Edition 1

by Roberto Veneziani, Luca Zamparelli

Overview

Offering a unique picture of recent developments in a range of non-conventional theoretical approaches in economics, this book introduces readers to the study of Analytical Political Economy and the changes within the subject.

• Includes a wide range of topics and theoretical approaches that are critically and thoroughly reviewed
• Contributions within the book are written according to the highest standards of rigor and clarity that characterize academic work
• Provides comprehensive and well-organized surveys of cutting-edge empirical and theoretical work covering an exceptionally wide range of areas and fields
• Topics include macroeconomic theories of growth and distribution; agent-based and stock-flow consistent models; financialization and Marxian price and value theory
• Investigates exploitation theory; trade theory; the role of expectations and ‘animal spirits’ on macroeconomic performance as well as empirical research in Marxian economics

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781119483366
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/11/2018
Series:	Surveys of Recent Research in Economics
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Roberto Veneziani, PhD, is Reader in Economics at the School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London and co-founder of the Analytical Political Economy Workshop. His research interests include liberal principles of distributive justice, axiomatic exploitation theory, macrodynamic models of growth and distribution, egalitarian principles, normative principles in economics, history of economic thought, and classical political economy.

Luca Zamparelli, PhD, is Associate Professor of Economics at 'Sapienza' University of Rome. His research mainly focuses on macrodynamic models of growth and distribution, endogenous growth theory, the history of economic thought, and classical political economy.

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Table of Contents

1. Analytical Political Economy 1
Roberto Veneziani and Luca Zamparelli

2. Taking Stock: A Rigorous Modelling of Animal Spirits in Macroeconomics 5
Reiner Franke and Frank Westerhoff

3. The Agent-Based Approach to Post Keynesian Macro-Modeling 39
Corrado Di Guilmi

4. Stock-Flow Consistent Macroeconomic Models: A Survey 63
Michalis Nikiforos and Gennaro Zezza

5. Heterodox Theories of Economic Growth and Income Distribution:A Partial Survey 103
Amitava Krishna Dutt

6. Endogenous Technical Change in Alternative Theories of Growth and Distribution 139
Daniele Tavani and Luca Zamparelli

7. Minsky Models: A Structured Survey 175
Maria Nikolaidi and Engelbert Stockhammer

8. Financialization and Investment: A Survey of the Empirical Literature 207
Leila E. Davis

9. Quantitative Empirical Research in Marxist Political Economy: A Selective Review 237
Deepankar Basu

10. Value, Price, and Exploitation: The Logic of the Transformation Problem 269
Simon Mohun and Roberto Veneziani

11. A Progress Report on Marxian Economic Theory: On the Controversies in Exploitation Theory Since Okishio (1963) 307
Naoki Yoshihara

12. South–South and North–South Economic Exchanges: Does it Matter who is Exchanging What and with Whom? 339
Omar S. Dahi and Firat Demir

Index 381