Nicholas Kaldor

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.

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

Inhalt
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