...João Ricardo Faria This paper proposes a simple model to classify economists according to their preferences towards quality and/or quantity of their publications. When more emphasis is placed on quantity they are defined as r‐strategists. When they put more effort in the quality...

..., heterodox political economists are still a small minority; in a way, classical‐Keynesian political economy is like a seed that may potentially become a huge and vigorous tree, overshadowing soon the old and slowly decaying tree of neoclassical, marginalist or supply and demand, economics. “The ‘lot...

... 2000 © MCB UP Limited 2002 Economic theory Economists Piero Sraffa was one of the very great political economists of the past century, perhaps the greatest together with Maynard Keynes (and Michal Kalecki). Indeed, in the course of Shackle’s Years of High Theory...

... 1998 --> Economics Economists History Keynesian school This is a welcome publication of a selection of Tony Thirlwall’s articles. He has grouped them under three headings, with seven or eight articles in each: first, “Keynesian theory and multiplier analysis”; second, “Unemployment...

... in the classical tradition, from that famous chapter in The Wealth of Nations (Smith, 1776), “That the division of labour is limited by the extent of the market” (see also Stigler, 1951) to Young’s (1928) Increasing Returns and Economic Progress. But, on the whole, the classical economists did...

...Brian Snowdon; Howard R. Vane An interview with Milton Friedman in 1996 ‐ presents his reflections on some of the important issues surrounding the evolution of, and currrent debates within, modern macroeconomics. A world‐renowned economist and prolific author since the 1930s, Milton Friedman has...

... of economic thought are investigated. Several conventional judgements are challenged and possibilities for further research suggested. Of the US economists up to 1870, Schumpeter′s judgement was that“there was, however, no first‐rate man among them, and they made next to nothing of the great opportunity...

..., an area which has received only sporadic attention in the literature. It is this supply aspect which is critical to economic development and economists should now devote more attention to it. ...perhaps the most obvious measure of the amount of entry into the i th industry during...

... integrated to arrive at a picture of the whole economy. These notes are complemented by eleven articles in the Encyclopaedia Britannicawhich were published shortly after Young′s sudden death in 1929. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Economics Economic systems Economic theory Economists History...