In this substantial new collection, esteemed Post-Keynesian scholars reassess the relevance of Keynes’s The General Theory to a broad array of topic areas, ranging from the environment, investment finance, exchange rates, and socialism, as well as inquiries into general Post-Keynesian theory.

The dissension on the mechanism of determination of interest rate is always in the center of much confusion and many controversies of monetary economics. Keynes’s liquidity preference theory remains at the core of the center. This paper starts off with analyzing the inherent logic of liquidity...

More than 20 soil samples were collected from tea gardens of specialized tea towns in Guangdong, including Fenglang Town and Fengshun Town in Meizhou City, Changshan Town in Lianjiang City, Fenghuang Town in Chaozhou City. Content of 6 types of heavy metal (Cr, Cu, Pb, As, Cd, Hg) in tea garden...

In the present paper we investigate the precise large deviations for heavy-tailed random sums. First, we obtain a result which improves the relative result in Klüppelberg and Mikosch (J. Appl. Probab. 34 (1997) 293). Then we introduce a more realistic risk model than classical ones, named the...

This paper presents experimental and numerical studies of the pressure drop in ceramic foams for solar air receiver applications. There are three main aims in this study. The first is to measure the pressure drop in the studied ceramic foams, and to build an empirical model based on the...