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Capital Theory

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: The New Palgrave (NPA)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Quantity of capital

    • Pierangelo Garegnani
    Pages 1-78
  3. Debates in capital theory

    • Heinz D. Kurz
    Pages 79-93
  4. Amortization

    • Charles R. Hulten
    Pages 94-96
  5. Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk

    • K. H. Hennings
    Pages 97-107
  6. Capital as a factor of production

    • K. H. Hennings
    Pages 108-122
  7. Capital goods

    • Harald Hagemann
    Pages 123-127
  8. Capitalistic and acapitalistic production

    • Lionello F. Punzo
    Pages 128-129
  9. Capital perversity

    • Tatsuo Hatta
    Pages 130-135
  10. Capital theory: paradoxes

    • Luigi L. Pasinetti, Roberto Scazzieri
    Pages 136-147
  11. Equal rates of profit

    • Christopher Bliss
    Pages 148-154
  12. Factor price frontier

    • Heinz D. Kurz
    Pages 155-160
  13. Irving Fisher

    • James Tobin
    Pages 161-177
  14. Fixed capital

    • Paolo Varri
    Pages 178-182
  15. ‘Hahn problem’

    • F. H. Hahn
    Pages 183-190
  16. Humbug production function

    • Anwar Shaikh
    Pages 191-194
  17. Internal rate of return

    • Harald Hagemann
    Pages 195-199
  18. Maintaining capital intact

    • K. H. Hennings
    Pages 200-205
  19. Optimal savings

    • Sukhamoy Chakravarty
    Pages 206-211
  20. Period of production

    • G. O. Orosel
    Pages 212-219

About this book

This is an excerpt from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today. 1300 subject entries in the complete work cover the broad themes of economic theory. This extract concentrates on the topic of capital theory.

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