Structural slumps : the modern equilibrium theory of unemployment, interest, and assets / Edmund S. Phelps, in collaboration with Hian Teck Hoon, George Kanaginis, Gylfi Zoega
1998, Third Edition. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #430509
ISBN: 0674843746
Physical description; xiv, 420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-413) and index. Contents; pt. I. Concepts and Agenda. 1. Modern Equilibrium Theory. 2. Contrary Postulates of the Neoclassical Schools. 3. The Labor-Market Equilibrium Locus in Modern Models. 4. The Product-Market Equilibrium Locus and Partial-Equilibrium Unemployment Determination. 5. Capital-Market Equilibrium, Neoclassical and Modern, and General-Equilibrium Employment. 6. Key Factors in the Structuralist Theory of Unemployment Fluctuation -- pt. II. The Closed Economy: Working Models. 7. A Turnover-Training Model. 8. A Customer-Market Model. 9. A Two-Sector Fixed-Investment Model. 10. Synthesis of the Single-Economy Theory -- pt. III. Small and Large Open Economies: Working Models. 11. International Linkages through Investment in Employees. 12. International Linkages through Investment in Customers. 13. International Linkages through Investment in Fixed Capital. 14. Synthesis of the Global-Economy Theory -- pt. IV. Microtheoretic Formulations, Modern and Neoclassical. 15. Interest and Wealth in the Microeconomics of the Incentive Wage and Equilibrium Unemployment. 16. Structural Shifts and Economic Activity in Neoclassical Theory -- pt. V. Empirical Evidence. 17. Econometric Tests of the Theory: A Postwar Cross-Country Time-Series Study. 18. A Concise Nonmonetary History of Postwar Economic Activity -- pt. VI. Concluding Notes. 19. Notes on Classicism, Etc. 20. Economic Policies to Which the Structuralist Theory Might Lead. Subjects; Business cycles. Depressions. Equilibrium (Economics). Unemployment. Interest. Money.
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