Essays on the Historicity of Capital

• Main Author: Herscovici, Alain (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Economic history.; Schools of economics.; Labor economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Heterodox Economics.; Labor Economics.

The methodological and epistemological problem this book studies is related to the heterogeneity of capital. Capitals are heterogeneous through time and space; at the same time, various heterogeneous capitals must be aggregated, as shown by Ricardo and Keynes. On the other hand, the value of some qu...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• Part I: The Epistemological Dimension of Historicity
• 2. Preliminary Considerations about the Historicity of Capital
• 3. Economic Epistemology
• 4. Ricardo, Keynes and Stiglitz: The Epistemological Convergences
• Part II: Historicity and Economic Sciences
• 5. Theory of Differential Rent and Capital Heterogeneity: a Neo-Ricardian Analysis
• 6. The Nature of Capital in the General Theory: Theoretical Implications and Structural Instability
• 7. The Relational Economics: an Example of Substantial Hypothesis Refutation
• 8. The Problem of the Empirical Data: Capital in the Twenty First Century?
• 9. General Conclusion.