Normal Prices, Technical Change and Accumulation

Preface - Introduction: Sraff's Theory Today - PART 1: GENERAL PROPERTIES OF SINGLE AND JOINT PRODUCTION SYSTEMS - Multiple Product Techniques With Properties of Single Product Systems - Relative Prices as a Function of the Rate of Profit: A Mathematical Note - The Standard Commodity as a Tool of Economic Analysis - PART 2: THE DOMINANT TECHNIQUE - On Counting Equations - Von Neumann and Sraffa: Mathematical Equivalence and Conceptual Difference - The Dominant Technique in Joint Production Systems - Joint Production: A Further Assessment - PART 3: FIXED CAPITAL AND TECHNICAL PROGRESS - Fixed Capital as a Joint Product - Reduction to Dated Quantities of Labour, Roundabout Processes, and Switches of Technique in Fixed Capital Systems - Different Forms of Technical Progress - Capital, Growth, and Definitions of Technical Progress - PART 4: THE COMPOSITION OF OUTPUT - Sraffa and Applied Economics: Joint Production - On Changes in the Composition of Output - PART 5: RELATIONS BETWEEN CLASSICAL, NEOCLASSICAL AND KEYNESIAN THEORIES - Joint Production, Intertemporal Preferences and Long-Period Equilibrium - The Market and the Classical Theory of Prices - On the Classical and Marshallian Foundation of Keynesian and Post-Keynesian Economics - Classical Theory and Intertemporal Equilibrium - Schumpeter as a Walrasian Austrian and Keynes as a Classical Marshallian - Ecological Problems as a Challenge to Classical and Keynesian Economics - Notes - Bibliography - Index