Overview
- Provides the second instalment to Toporowski's fascinating intellectual biography of Michal Kalecki
- Evaluates Kalecki's political position and thoughts on economic cycles
- Details the reception of Kalecki's ideas
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought (PHET)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Michał Kalecki
- History of Economic Thought
- John Maynard Keynes
- Polish economics
- Migrant labour
- The United Nations
- Oxford economics
- The Second World War
- Theory of the business cycle in capitalism
- Marshallian economics
- The Institute of Statistics
- full employment
- Inflation
- Monetary theory
- Political economy of full employment
- Defence economics
About this book
This volume of intellectual biography records the work of Michał Kalecki’s maturity: his work on monetary economics and the theory of profits; his work on the problems of socialism and developing countries; and the extension of his theory of capitalism to define his work in relation to Keynes and previous political economic principles. Kalecki had, by 1939, laid out the essential elements of his theory of the business cycle in capitalism. This book begins at Oxford where, at the Institute of Statistics, he worked on the economic planning and financing of World War Two, as well as extending and detailing the particulars of his theory and examining the conditions for full employment in the post-War international monetary and financial system. Kalecki would then work for the United Nations on full employment, inflation, and developing countries. He departed from the United Nations in 1955, and returned to Poland to extend two new directions of his ideas – on the economics of developing countries and his theory of growth in the socialist economy, alongside further work on business cycles.
This book is essential reading for all those who want to understand Kalecki’s lasting contribution to economic theory and policy.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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, Michał Kalecki: An Intellectual Biography – Volume I: Rendez-vous in Cambridge 1899–1939, was published in 2013.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Michał Kalecki: An Intellectual Biography
Book Subtitle: Volume II: By Intellect Alone 1939–1970
Authors: Jan Toporowski
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69664-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69663-8Published: 09 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09906-0Published: 15 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69664-5Published: 28 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-6578
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6586
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 289
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Economic History, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Economic Policy, European Economics