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Capital, Accumulation, and Money
An Integration of Capital, Growth, and Monetary Theory
ISBN/EAN: 9780387981680
Umbreit-Nr.: 1463827
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xxvii, 278 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 15.01.2010
Auflage: 2/2010
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabePremises and an Overview.- Myros and Other Concepts and Definitions.- The Macroeconomic Framework.- Interest and Money.- Production and Investment.- General Price Level and Inflation.- Capital Values, Wealth, and Related Topics.- Macroeconomic Equilibrium and Employment.- Capital Theory in Perspective.- Opportunity and Sunk Costs.- Trade, Transfers, and Monetary Overhangs.- Questions Related to Consumption and Saving.- Questions Related to Economic Growth.- Themes and Counterthemes: Fluid Capital in Retrospect.- Background and Tools for Understanding and Dealing with Recurrent Financial Crises.- Booms, Busts, and Financial Panics: The Financial Meltdown of 2007-2009.
- Kurztext
- This book will benefit individuals interested in a non-mathematics-based theory of capital. Coverage includes the factors that led to the financial market turmoil of 2008. Additionally, the author proposes ideas for avoiding economic crises in the future.
- Autorenportrait
- Lester D. Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona, where he taught for 36 years. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, and taught at Harvard and the University of Michigan prior to Arizona. Taylor was a senior staff economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C., in 1964-65 and spent 18 months in 1967-68 with the (then) Harvard Development Advisory service as an advisor to the Ministry of Planning of the Government of Colombia. He has (co)-authored more than 80 journal articles and a dozen books, including two monographs on telecommunications demand and the two early editions of Consumer Demand in The United States.