History of Modern Non-Marxian Economics

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ANTAL MÁTYÁS
HISTORY OF MODERN NON-MARXIAN ECONOMICS
The author gives a profound and clear account of the history of modern non-Marxian economics up to the present from a Marxist point of view.
What does Professor Mâtyâs's work offer the non-Marxist reader? First, a detailed, exact and objective discussion and a systematic arrangement of the theories of non-Marxian economics, and, secondly, a comparative analysis of non-Marxian and Marxian economics. He evaluates the prominent achievements of modern non-Marxian economic thought, shows its rational elements and offers possible solutions to the problems left open.
Though the book cannot undertake to cover all fields of non-Marxian economics, it is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive books ever written on the subject, unparallelled in both scope and depth. Here are a few of the main topics discussed: The utilization of marginal and activity theory in price theory, the dispute between the followers of marginal productivity... Tovább

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ANTAL MÁTYÁS
HISTORY OF MODERN NON-MARXIAN ECONOMICS
The author gives a profound and clear account of the history of modern non-Marxian economics up to the present from a Marxist point of view.
What does Professor Mâtyâs's work offer the non-Marxist reader? First, a detailed, exact and objective discussion and a systematic arrangement of the theories of non-Marxian economics, and, secondly, a comparative analysis of non-Marxian and Marxian economics. He evaluates the prominent achievements of modern non-Marxian economic thought, shows its rational elements and offers possible solutions to the problems left open.
Though the book cannot undertake to cover all fields of non-Marxian economics, it is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive books ever written on the subject, unparallelled in both scope and depth. Here are a few of the main topics discussed: The utilization of marginal and activity theory in price theory, the dispute between the followers of marginal productivity theory and of the Cambridge School on problems relating to the measuring of capital, Samuelson's factor-price frontier, the reswitching problem of techniques, Kaldor's and Pasinetti's micro-economic income-distribution theory, the Pasinetti paradox, the Keynesian system and its non-Marxian critics; the rational core and the limitations of the Keynesian system in the light of Marxism; Hicks's trade cycle theory, embodied technical progress, the vintage model, Friedman's monetarism, and contemporary theories of inflation. Vissza