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Author: Roger Middleton Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 496
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Middleton (history of political economy, U. of Bristol) continues his two-decade inquiry into the relationship between professional economists and economic policy, focusing here on whether economists can be blamed, credibly that is, for Britain's economic decline. At a level suitable for advanced undergraduates in economics, he traces the influence of the science since the 1890s with such perspectives as the market for economic advice, Alfred Marshall's (1842-1924) mission, the era of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), and monetarism and the market. He includes very helpful profiles of the people mentioned. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Roger Middleton Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 496
Book Description
Middleton (history of political economy, U. of Bristol) continues his two-decade inquiry into the relationship between professional economists and economic policy, focusing here on whether economists can be blamed, credibly that is, for Britain's economic decline. At a level suitable for advanced undergraduates in economics, he traces the influence of the science since the 1890s with such perspectives as the market for economic advice, Alfred Marshall's (1842-1924) mission, the era of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), and monetarism and the market. He includes very helpful profiles of the people mentioned. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: T. Shenk Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137297026 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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This book explores the life of the man whom even his critics acknowledged was one of the world's most significant Communist economists. From his outpost at the University of Cambridge, where he was a protégé of John Maynard Keynes and mentor to students, Dobb made himself into one of British communism's premier intellectuals.
Author: Robert A. Cord Publisher: Springer ISBN: 113758274X Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 949
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The London School of Economics (LSE) has been and continues to be one of the most important global centres for economics. With six chapters on themes in LSE economics and 29 chapters on the lives and work of LSE economists, this volume shows how economics became established at the School, how it produced some of the world’s best-known economists, including Lionel Robbins and Bill Phillips, plus Nobel Prize winners, such as Friedrich Hayek, John Hicks and Christopher Pissarides, and how it remains a global force for the very best in teaching and research in economics. With original contributions from a stellar cast, this volume provides economists – especially those interested in macroeconomics and the history of economic thought – with the first in-depth analysis of LSE economics.
Author: Francis Cairns Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316739511 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 535
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This book offers scholars and students of Hellenistic and Roman literature an overview of Hellenistic epigram, a field closely related to other Hellenistic poetry and highly influential upon Roman poetry. In fourteen themed chapters, it foregrounds the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, social, political, ethnic, cultic, onomastic, local, topographical and patronage contexts within which Hellenistic epigrams were composed. Many epigrams are analysed in detail and new interpretations of them proposed. Throughout, the question is asked whether epigrams are literary jeux d'esprit (as is often assumed without proper discussion) or whether they relate to real people and real events and have a function in the real world. That function may be epigraphic, for example an epigram can be the epitymbion for inscription at someone's grave, or the anathematikon for inscription on or beside a dedicated object, or a picture-label - an ekphrasis to accompany a painting or mosaic.
Author: Peter Sloman Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192542753 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 304
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The idea of a guaranteed minimum income has been central to British social policy debates for more than a century. Since the First World War, a variety of market economists, radical activists, and social reformers have emphasized the possibility of tackling poverty through direct cash transfers between the state and its citizens. As manufacturing employment has declined and wage inequality has grown since the 1970s, cash benefits and tax credits have become an important source of income for millions of working-age households, including many low-paid workers with children. The nature and purpose of these transfer payments, however, remain highly contested. Conservative and New Labour governments have used in-work benefits and conditionality requirements to 'activate' the unemployed and reinforce the incentives to take low-paid work - an approach which has reached its apogee in Universal Credit. By contrast, a growing number of campaigners have argued that the challenge of providing economic security in an age of automation would be better met by paying a Universal Basic Income to all citizens. Transfer State provides the first detailed history of guaranteed income proposals in modern Britain, which brings together intellectual history and archival research to show how the pursuit of an integrated tax and benefit system has shaped UK public policy since 1918. The result is a major new analysis of the role of cash transfers in the British welfare state which sets Universal Credit in a historical perspective and examines the cultural and political barriers to a Universal Basic Income.
Author: Alex Millmow Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9813369469 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 401
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This book offers the first intellectual biography of the Anglo Australian economist, Colin Clark. Despite taking the economics world by storm with a mercurial ability for statistical analysis, Clark’s work has been largely overlooked in the 30 years since his death. His career was punctuated by a number of firsts. He was the first economist to derive the concept of GNP, the first to broach development economics and to foresee the re-emergence of India and China within the global economy. In 1945, he predicted the rise and persistence of inflation when taxation levels exceeded 25 per cent of GNP. And he was also the first economist to debunk post-war predictions of mass hunger by arguing that rapid population growth engendered economic development. Clark wandered through the fields of applied economics in much the same way as he rambled through the English countryside and the Australian bush. His imaginative wanderings qualify him as the eminent gypsy economist for the 20th century.
Author: Aled Davies Publisher: UCL Press ISBN: 178735685X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 396
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The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are commonly characterised as an age of ‘neoliberalism’ in which individualism, competition, free markets and privatisation came to dominate Britain’s politics, economy and society. This historical framing has proven highly controversial, within both academia and contemporary political and public debate. Standard accounts of neoliberalism generally focus on the influence of political ideas in reshaping British politics; according to this narrative, neoliberalism was a right-wing ideology, peddled by political economists, think-tanks and politicians from the 1930s onwards, which finally triumphed in the 1970s and 1980s. The Neoliberal Age? suggests this narrative is too simplistic. Where the standard story sees neoliberalism as right-wing, this book points to some left-wing origins, too; where the standard story emphasises the agency of think-tanks and politicians, this book shows that other actors from the business world were also highly significant. Where the standard story can suggest that neoliberalism transformed subjectivities and social lives, this book illuminates other forces which helped make Britain more individualistic in the late twentieth century. The analysis thus takes neoliberalism seriously but also shows that it cannot be the only explanatory framework for understanding contemporary Britain. The book showcases cutting-edge research, making it useful to researchers and students, as well as to those interested in understanding the forces that have shaped our recent past.
Author: Roger Middleton
Author: Roger Middleton
Author: T. Shenk
Author: Robert A. Cord
Author: Francis Cairns
Author: Peter Sloman
Author: Roger Backhouse
Author: Ben Jackson
Author: Erik Grimmer-Solem
Author: Alex Millmow
Author: Aled Davies