Product Description: This book combines historical and policy-oriented perspectives on the relevance of the Keynesian approach for economic theory, policy, and crisis analysis. The first part focuses on historical, theoretical, and methodological issues, and puts them in context with current developments...read more

Product Description: The impetus for the conference that was the basis for this volume emanated from the influence of two brilliant minds-Egon Sohmen and Adam Klug, who both died at an early age, leaving their families and the professions of economics and economic history with major voids...read more

Product Description: In the centennial year of the birth of Sir John Cockcroft, first master of my Cam­ bridge College, Churchill, and the first man to split the atomic nucleus by artificial means, it is indeed relevant to consider the outcome of his efforts at developing atomic power...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this book is to describe the intellectual process by which Real Business Cycle models were developed. The approach taken focuses on the core elements in the development of RBC models: (i) building blocks, (ii) catalysts, and (iii) meta-syntheses...read more

Product Description: IS-LM is perhaps the prime example of `cognitive dissonance' in economics, and is problematic to many economists. On the one hand, the IS-LM model is still taught by many academic economists or they use it to derive the AD-AS approach...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book discusses the origins and development of the growth research programme in economics. Warren Young has also written "Minorities and the Military" and "Interpreting Mr Keynes: The IS-LM Enigma".

Product Description: Since its first appearance fifty years ago in Hicks' "Mr Keynes and the Classics", the IS-LM diagram and the approach to Keynes' General Theory it represents has been a central focus of controversy in economics. Called by its opponents "bastard Keynesianism", at the same time IS-LM became the main teaching tool of modern macroeconomics, with its proponents viewing it as the essence of Keynesian economics...read more

Product Description: "Dangerousness" is a feature of life in modern industrial societies. The general public in these countries are at risk of suffering grave harm from other persons in a variety of ways. But what exactly constitutes "dangerousness?" Who is "dangerous?" Should there be special sentences for "dangerous" offenders?In 1976 the Howard League for Penal Reform convened a distinguished working party to review and report on the law and practice in relation to "dangerous" offenders...read more