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Title Free market conservatism : a critique of theory and practice / edited by Edward Nell
Published London ; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1984

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 MELB  330.122 F853N  AVAILABLE
Description vi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Theory -- Introduction - capitalism as gestalt : a contrast of visions / Robert Heilbroner -- Supply-side economics : incentives and disasters / Rosemary Rinder -- Monetarism : conservative policy and monetary theory / Edward Nell & Alex Azarchs -- Rational expectations : radical assumptions and conservative conclusions -- Expectations and rationality within a captalist framework / Jan Kregel -- The microfoundations of the short-run Phillips curve / Bob Cherry, Pat Clawson & James Dean -- Rational expectations and imperfect knowledge / Jagdish Handa -- Social policy : private reactions to public decisions / Edward Nell -- Practice -- The politics of Reaganomics / Teresa Amott -- Thatcherism : the miracle that never happened / Geoff Hodgson -- Supply-side economics in a small ecomony : the Chilean case / Antonio Schneider -- Conclusions - cowboy capitalism : the last round-up / Edward Nell
Summary This important new book carefully dissects and convincingly demonstrates that conservative economics is incoherent in theory and disastrous in practice. The three main schools of thought supporting "free-market" policies -- supply side economics, monetarism and rational expectations -- are examined in turn and each is found defective
Analysis Economics Conservative theories
Notes Includes bibliographies and index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Chicago school of economics.
Conservatism.
Economics.
Free enterprise.
Rational expectations (Economic theory)
Supply-side economics.
SUBJECT Chile -- Economic policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101037
United Kingdom -- Economic policy http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056679 -- 1945-
United Kingdom -- Economic policy -- 1945-1964. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056681
United Kingdom -- Economic policy -- 1979-1997. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98007091
United States -- Economic policy -- 1981-1993. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006369
Author Nell, Edward J.
LC no. 84002832
ISBN 0043303390
0043303404 (paperback)