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- Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital
- Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
- Introduction
- 1 Search for a Will-O’-The-Wisp: Capital As a Unit Independent of Distribution and Prices
- 2 Treacle, Fossils and Technical Progress
- 3 Solow on the Rate of Return: Tease and Counter-Tease
- 4 A Child’s Guide to the Double-Switching Debate
- 5 The Rate of Profits in Capitalist Society: Whose Finest Hour?
- Introduction to the Afterwords
- References: Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital
- Index
1 - Search for a Will-O’-The-Wisp: Capital As a Unit Independent of Distribution and Prices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 June 2022
- Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital
- Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Foreword
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
- Introduction
- 1 Search for a Will-O’-The-Wisp: Capital As a Unit Independent of Distribution and Prices
- 2 Treacle, Fossils and Technical Progress
- 3 Solow on the Rate of Return: Tease and Counter-Tease
- 4 A Child’s Guide to the Double-Switching Debate
- 5 The Rate of Profits in Capitalist Society: Whose Finest Hour?
- Introduction to the Afterwords
- References: Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital
- Index
Summary
To begin at the beginning. In 1953 Joan Robinson wrote ‘The Production Function and the Theory of Capital’ (Robinson [1953–4]) in which she made a number of specific complaints about the state of economic theory and the state of some economic theorists, who soon were to become identified as the latter-day neoclassicals whose HQ is now Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of CapitalFiftieth Anniversary Edition, pp. 11 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022