Economic Crisis and Political Economy

Introduction; Riccardo Bellofiore, Ewa Karwowski and Jan Toporowski 1. The Economic System as an End or as a Means and the Future of Socialism: an Evolutionary Viewpoint; Alberto Chilosi 2.Whatever Happened to the Crucial Reform?; John King 3. 'Crucial Reform' in Post-War Socialism and Capitalism: Kowalik's Analysis and the Polish Transition; Gary Dymski 4. Micha? Kalecki's Political Cycle from Today's Perspective: An introduction; D. Mario Nuti 5. Political Aspects of Persisting Unemployment: Kalecki and beyond; Alessandro Vercelli 6. The Dynamics of Competition; Ewa Karwowski 7. Net Private Savings in Relation to the Government's Financial Balance; Kazimierz ?aski and Leon Podkaminer 8. Confidence, Increasing Risk and Crisis in a Post-Kaleckian Stock-Flow Consistent Model; Edwin Le Heron 9. Kalecki's Analysis and the Great Recession; Malcolm Sawyer 10. Systemic and Structural Sources of Present Crisis and 'The Accumulation of Capital' by Rosa Luxemburg; Janusz Tomidajewicz 11. Capitalism, Crisis, Growth and Ecology; Pat Devine 12. Trend and Cycle: On the Timeliness of Grossman's Breakdown Theory; Paul Mattick 13. Macroeconomic Paradoxes with Kalecki and Kaleckians; Marc Lavoie 14. Revisiting the Socialist Calculation Debate: The Role of Finance in Hayek's Response to Lange's Challenge; Paul Auerbach and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos References Tadeusz Kowalik: A Bibliography