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The Clash of Economic Ideas : the Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years.
Places economic debates in their historical context and outlines how economic ideas have influenced swings in policy.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; THE CLASH OF ECONOMIC IDEAS; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; AN OVERVIEW OF THE COMING CHAPTERS; DO ECONOMIC IDEAS HAVE CONSEQUENCES?; THE STRUCTURE OF INTELLECTUAL PRODUCTION; GOVERNMENTS VERSUS MARKETS; SOCIALISM VERSUS CAPITALISM; 1: The Turn Away from Laissez-Faire; JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES; FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK; KEYNES ON THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE; KEYNES VERSUS HAYEK ON THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL ECONOMY IN AMERICA'S PROGRESSIVE ERA; KEYNES WAS NOT THE FIRST TO TURN AWAY FROM LAISSEZ-FAIRE IDEAS.
- ALFRED MARSHALL AND IRVING FISHER ON LAISSEZ-FAIRETHE GLOBAL ECONOMY BEFORE 1914; THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR; THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS OF 1917; KARL MARX; 2: The Bolshevik Revolution and the Socialist Calculation Debate; THE BOLSHEVIKS MAKE ECONOMIC POLICY; VIENNA 1920; LUDWIG VON MISES; MISES'S CRITIQUE OF THE SOCIALIST ECONOMY; SOVIET SHORTAGES; THE NEED FOR INPUT PRICES; "CRUSOE" PRODUCTION VERSUS SPECIALIZED PRODUCTION AND TRADE; WHICH PRODUCTION PROJECTS ARE WORTH IT?; THE PROFIT TEST MAKES "INTELLECTUAL DIVISION OF LABOR" POSSIBLE; WHY NOT VALUATION BY LABOR INPUT?
- The labor theory of value and its problemsthe problem of incentive under socialism; oskar lange's response to mises's challenge; oskar lange; lange's answer to mises; how does the socialist planning ministry gain the knowledge it needs?; determining prices for inputs without markets; why prefer socialism, if it merely replicates competitive markets?; mises's response to lange; hayek's initial critique of market socialism and lange's letter in reply; key information is dispersed; who plans for whom?; markets coordinate decentralized plans through price signals.
- THE CORRECT PRICES FOR INPUTS DO NOT FOLLOW FROM OUTPUT PRICES ALONELANGE AS A CENTRAL PLANNER IN PRACTICE; THE VARIED INFLUENCE OF HAYEK'S ARGUMENT; DID THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET ECONOMY SHOW THAT MISES WAS RIGHT?; CHANGING VIEWS OF THE SOCIALIST CALCULATION DEBATE; WITH ITS THEORY IN TATTERS, WHERE DOES SOCIALISM GO?; 3: The Roaring Twenties and Austrian Business Cycle Theory; THE ROARING TWENTIES; PRE-KEYNESIAN MACROECONOMICS; THE MISES-HAYEK THEORY OF THE BOOM-BUST CYCLE; HAYEK VERSUS KEYNES'S TREATISE; THE HAYEKIAN TRIANGLE; WHY BUST FOLLOWS BOOM; HAYEK'S POLICY PRESCRIPTION.
- IN A GROWING ECONOMY, PRICES SHOULD FALLEUGEN VON BÖHM-BAWERK'S THEORY OF INTEREST; MISES, WICKSELL, AND THE BRITISH "CURRENCY SCHOOL"; THE CURRENCY, FREE BANKING, AND BANKING SCHOOL; CRITICISMS OF HAYEK'S THEORY; DID HAYEK AND ROBBINS DEEPEN THE GREAT DEPRESSION?; THE REAL BILLS DOCTRINE VERSUS THE AUSTRIAN CYCLE THEORY; 4: The New Deal and Institutionalist Economics; FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT AND THE COMMAND-ECONOMY MODEL; FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT (FDR) AND THE NRA; THE THEORY BEHIND THE NRA; UNDERCONSUMPTION AND J.A. HOBSON; ECONOMIC AND LEGAL PROBLEMS WITH THE NRA AND AAA.