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Author Mbeki, Nobantu L

Title Post-Keynesian Theories of the Firm Kalecki and Radical Uncertainty
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (427 p.)
Series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Series
Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Series
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Radical Uncertainty and the Limits of Mark-Up Pricing: Some Further Considerations of the Question of Radical Uncertainty Vis-à-Vis Kaleckian Pricing -- 1.1 The Framing of Radical Uncertainty in Mark-Up Pricing -- 1.2 The Two Strains of Mark-Up Pricing -- 1.2.1 Profit Maximising Mark-Up Pricing -- 1.2.2 Growth Maximising Mark-Up Pricing -- 1.3 From Synthesist Approaches Towards a Kaleckian Theory of the Firm Incorporating Radical Uncertainty
1.4 The Effect of Radical Uncertainty on the Nature and Role of Power in Mark-Up Pricing -- 1.5 Radical Uncertainty, Power, Stability, Excess Capacity, and Mark-Up Pricing -- 1.5.1 Uncertainty, Stability and Power -- 1.5.2 Stabilisation, Costs and the Profit Mark-Up -- 1.6 Roadmap of the Book -- 2 An Interpretation of the Theory of Income Distribution -- 2.1 Pricing in the Theory of Distribution -- 2.2 The Degree of Monopoly as a Theory of Value -- 3 From Income Distribution Towards a Theory of the Firm -- 3.1 Microeconomic Theory of Distribution I (1938-1939a)
3.2 Microeconomic Theory of Distribution II (1939b-1942a) -- 3.3 Microeconomic Theory of Distribution III (1943-1971b) -- 4 Pricing and the Firm -- 4.1 Growth Maximisation and Radical Uncertainty -- 4.2 Profit Maximisation is not without Radical Uncertainty -- 5 Radical Uncertainty, the Flow of Time and the Irreversibility of Time -- 5.1 Revisiting the Risk-Uncertainty Dichotomy -- 5.2 The Epistemological-Ontological Divide -- 5.3 Demystifying the Present -- 5.4 An Outline of Shackle's View on Time -- 5.5 Radical Uncertainty as a Property of Time -- 6 Mark-Up Pricing and Radical Uncertainty
6.1 Pricing as a Decision Sequence: Rationalising Complexity -- 6.1.1 Range Pricing -- 6.2 Pricing as a Sequence in Time: Rationalising Contingency -- 6.3 Some Initial Propositions about Behaviour -- 7 Uncertainty in Orthodox and Resource-Based Theories of the Firm -- 7.1 Orthodox Theories of the Firm -- 7.1.1. Agency Theory -- 7.1.2 Transaction Costs -- 7.1.3 Property Rights -- 7.2 Resource-Based Theories of the Firm -- 8 Uncertainty in Select Competence-Based Views of the Firm -- 8.1 Knowledge-Based Theories -- 8.2 Behavioural Theories -- 8.3 Evolutionary Theories
9 Towards a Theory of the Firm -- 9.1 How Far can we Get with Theoretical Hybrids? -- 9.2 Disentangling Institutionalisation and Environment -- 10 Existing Propositions in the Kaleckian Theory of the Firm -- 10.1 Embedding the Firm in a Fundamentally Stable Environment (Growth Maximisation) -- 10.2 Ecosystems as Exit Strategies for Firms in Fundamentally Unstable Environments (Profit Maximisation) -- 11 The Uncertain Firm in its Uncertain Environment -- 11.1 Is Endogenous Technology not a Redundancy? -- 11.2 Constructing Ecosystems -- 11.3 Profitability, Profits and Ecosystems
Notes Description based upon print version of record
11.4 The Uncertain Firm in its Uncertain Environment
Subject Kalecki, Micha -- Influence
Keynesian economics.
Corporations -- Finance.
Economics -- Methodology.
Corporations -- Finance
Economics -- Methodology
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Keynesian economics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000875638
1000875636