Economic Theories, Protagonists and Facts : Collected Essays in the History of Economic Thought

1. Introduction -- Part I: History of Economic Thought: Which are the Issues -- 2. Is History of Economic Thought a "Serious" Subject -- 3. A Slender Trunk and Many Branches: The History of Economic Thought in Perspective, Past and Future -- 4. A Methodological Agenda for New Economic Thinking -- 5. Is History of Economics What Historians of Economic Thought Do? A Quantitative Investigation -- Part II: Ricardo, Money and Monetary Systems -- 6. Ricardo's Theory of Money Matters -- 7. On the Notion of Permanent and Temporary Causes: The Legacy of Ricardo -- 8. Profitability in the International Gold Market in the Early History of the Gold Standard -- 9. Metallic Standards and Real Exchange Rates -- Part III: Cambridge Economics: Past and Present -- 10. Is There a Cambridge Approach to Economics? -- 11. Luigi Pasinetti and the Cambridge Economists -- 12. The “Cambridge” Critique of the Quantity Theory of Money: A Note on How Quantitative Easing Vindicates It -- 13. Dear John, Dear Ursula (Cambridge and LSE, 1935): Eighty-Eight Letters Unearthed -- Part IV: Cambridge Protagonists: Keynes, Joan Robinson and Sraffa -- 14. On Alternative Notions of Change and Choice: Krishna Bharadwaj's Legacy -- 15. Sraffa and His Arguments Against 'Marginism' -- 16. Joan Robinson’s Challenges on How to Construct a Post-Keynesian Economic Theory -- 17. Fighting Austerity: Why After 80 Years the General Theory is Still Relevant Today.