Nicholas Kaldor

by J. King

Overview

This book explores the life and work of Nicholas Kaldor, examining the influences that shaped and inspired his writings, and looks in detail at the crucial part he played in twentieth-century economics. Offering a comprehensive intellectual portrait of Kaldor, this book explains this great economist's importance in his own time and in ours.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230217256
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/17/2008
Series:	Great Thinkers in Economics
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

JOHN E. KING is Professor of Economics in the Economics and Finance Department at La Trobe University, Australia.

Table of Contents

An Economist from Hungary Not the Devil's Decade Kaldor's War A Return to Theory The British Economic Disaster, 1964-1979 Kaldor and the Third World The Scourge of Monetarism The Irrelevance of Equilibrium Economics Kaldor in His Time – and Ours