• Provides the second instalment to Toporowski's fascinating intellectual biography of Micha Kalecki

• Evaluates Kalecki's political position and thoughts on economic cycles

• Details the reception of Kalecki's ideas

  Autorentext

  Jan Toporowski is Professor of Economics and Finance at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor of Economics and Finance at the International University College, Turin, Italy, and Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He has worked in fund management, international banking, central banking and financial and economic consultancy. He has published extensively on monetary and financial theory and policy and the history of economic thought. The first volume of this intellectual biography, Michä Kalecki: An Intellectual Biography - Volume I: Rendez-vous in Cambridge 1899-1939 , was published in 2013.

  Inhalt

Chapter 1. Wages in 'free and fair competition'.- Chapter 2. A farewell to the 1930s.- Chapter 3. Oxford.- Chapter 4. Amongst friends again?.- Chapter 5. Progress and profit.- Chapter 6. Profits and money.- Chapter 7. The political economy of full employment.- Chapter 8. Planning for peace.- Chapter 9. The transition period.- Chapter 10. At the United Nations.- Chapter 11. The disenchantment at the United Nations.- Chapter 12. The possibilities of real existing socialism.- Chapter 13. Academic freedom.- Chapter 14. The last disappointment.