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Emerald Group Publishing Limited (Bingley, UK, 2019) (eng) English9781787698499Research in the history of economic thought and methodologyUnknownUNION FOR RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS; Includes index; Emerald Business Management and Economics Ebooks 2019; Volume 37A of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium edited by Tiago Mata, celebrating 50 years of the Union of Radical Political Economics. It also includes an essay by Mauro Boianovsky, and is accompanied by a series of reflections from esteemed colleagues, all focused on Arthur Lewis and the classical foundation of development economics. The Volume further includes an important new archival contribution (edited and introduced by Malcolm Rutherford) from the papers of Alvin Hansen, in which the famous Harvard economist reflects on the contributions of his teacher, John R. Commons, on the occasion of the latter's 70th birthday in November 1932.
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Prelims
Part I A Symposium on 50 Years of the Union FOR Radical Political Economics
Introduction: The Untold Story of Left Economics
Macroeconomic Consequences of Peace: American Radical Economists and the Problem of Military Keynesianism, 1938–1975
American Radical Economists in Mao’s China: From Hopes to Disillusionment
In Search of the Socialist Subject: Radical Political Economy and the Study of Moral Incentives in the Third World
The Radical Roots of Feminism in Economics
Part II Essays
Arthur Lewis and the Classical Foundations of Development Economics
Adam Smith’s Answer to Arthur Lewis
Lewis’s Breakthrough Publications of 1954 and 1955: A Little Understood Perspective
Arthur Lewis and the Classical Foundations of “Development”: Economic History and Institutional Change
Generalizing Lewis: Unlimited Supplies of Labor in the Advanced Capitalist World
On the Application of the Lewis Model to China
Lewis and Kuznets on Economic Growth and Income Inequality
Why Lewis and Classical Economics?
Part III From the Vault
Introduction to Alvin H. Hansen: The Contribution of Professor John R. Commons to American Economics
The Contribution of Professor John R. Commons to American Economics
Index