- 225 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
The purpose of this volume is to reopen the discussion of how to develop the economic theory of investment to better model the facts of experience and to provide policy makers with a better understanding of how capital markets work. In this final decade of the twentieth century, almost everyone agrees that human progress will be closely related to the decisions regarding the investments made to promote economic growth of output. Despite the Nobel prize work done in recent decades, economic performance in this area seems to have worsened. Clearly, a reopening of public discussion on what is required is necessary. Until we get our theory right, it is impossible to get our public policy right. This book does not promise to provide "the" correct theory. Instead, it hopes to stimulate the reader into an understanding of where we may have gone wrong, and how we might rectify our mistakes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Neoclassical and a Post Keynesian theory of investment
- 2 The investment function: five propositions in response to Professor Gordon
- 3 Financial theory and the theory of investment
- 4 Neoclassical and Keynesian approaches to the theory of investment
- 5 Is investing for the long term theory or just mumbo-jumbo?
- 6 Investment, capital, and finance: corporate and entrepreneurial theories of the firm
- 7 On the Keynesian investment function and the investment function(s) of Keynes
- 8 The user cost of fixed capital in Keynes’ theory of investment
- Index
- About the Editor