Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy

Part I. Microeconomics

1. The Function of Firms: Alternative Views
Nina Shapiro

2. Industrial Structure and the Macro Economy
Keith Cowling, Philip R. Tomlinson

3. Unemployment, Power Relations, and the Quality of Work
David A. Spencer

4. The Problem of Young People Not in Employment, Education or Training: Is There a ‘Neet’ Solution?
John McCombie, Maureen Pike

5. The Business of Macro Imbalances: Comparing ‘Gluts’ in Savings, Money and Profits
William Milberg, Lauren Schmitz

Part II. Macroeconomics

6. A Critical Appraisal of the New Consensus Macroeconomics
Philip Arestis

7. Bringing Together the Horizontalist and the Structuralist Analyses of Endogenous Money
Giuseppe Fontana

8. Economic Growth and Income Distribution: Kalecki, the Kaleckians and Their Critics
Amitava Krishna Dutt

9. The Influence of Michał Kalecki on Joan Robinson’s Approach to Economics
G. C. Harcourt, Peter Kriesler

10. Shared Ideas Amid Mutual Incomprehension: Kalecki and Cambridge
Jan Toporowski

Part III. Economic Policy

11. Is There a Role for Active Fiscal Policies? Supply-Side and Demand-Side Effects of Fiscal Policies
Jesus Ferreiro, Teresa Garcia Valle, Carmen Gomez, Felipe Serrano

12. Fiscal Policy and Private Investment in Mexico
U. Emilio Caballero, G. Julio López

13. A Keynes-Kalecki Model of Cyclical Growth with Agent-Based Features
Mark Setterfield, Andrew Budd

14. Unsurprising to Keynes, Shocking to Economists: The Normalisation of Capital Controls in the Global Financial Crisis
Ilene Grabel

15. Regulating Wall Street: Exploring the Political Economy of the Possible
Gerald Epstein, Robert Pollin

Avainsanat: Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Labor Economics, International Relations, Industrial Organization, Economic Systems