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Papers by Tony Aspromourgos

Research paper thumbnail of On the Origins of Classical Economics:: Distribution and Value from William Petty to Adam Smith

... Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Aspromourgos, Tony, 1957-On the origins o... more ... Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Aspromourgos, Tony, 1957-On the origins of classical economics: distribution and value from William Petty to Adam Smith/Tony Aspromourgos. p. cm. ... v-. [This page intentionally left blank.]. -vi-. CONTENTS. Preface, xi. ...

Research paper thumbnail of On the origins of the term 'neoclassical'

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Jan 1, 1986

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century saw within economics the rise to intellec-tural a... more The late nineteenth and early twentieth century saw within economics the rise to intellec-tural ascendancy of 'marginalism': an approach to value, distribution and output wherein the theories of distribution and relative prices, output(s) and employment, are treated in terms of the ...

Research paper thumbnail of POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE SOCIAL DIVISION OF LABOUR: THE ECONOMICS OF SIR WILLIAM PETTY*

Scottish journal of political economy, Jan 1, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of Is an employer-of-last-resort policy sustainable? A review article

Review of Political Economy, Jan 1, 2000

A radical proposal to address decisively the problem of mass involuntary unemployment, by way of ... more A radical proposal to address decisively the problem of mass involuntary unemployment, by way of a government committing itself to stand ready as 'employer of last resort', has recently been put forward by L. Randall Wray and others. To the question of how such large-scale ...

Research paper thumbnail of Neoclassical

The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of …, Jan 1, 1987

Research paper thumbnail of The science of wealth: Adam Smith and the framing of political economy

Research paper thumbnail of Sraffian research programmes and unorthodox economics

Review of Political Economy, Jan 1, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of The life of William Petty in relation to his economics: a tercentenary interpretation

History of Political Economy, Jan 1, 1988

Correspondence may be addressed to the author, Dept. of Economics, University of Sydney, New Sout... more Correspondence may be addressed to the author, Dept. of Economics, University of Sydney, New South Wales, 2006 AUSTRALIA. 1. For example, Monroe (1923), Johnson (1937), and less explicitly, a host of other writers. 2. Those who have sought, more or less following ...

Research paper thumbnail of The theory of production and distribution in Cantillon's Essai

Oxford Economic Papers, Jan 1, 1989

RICHARD CANTILLON (c. 1680?-1734) is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of economic... more RICHARD CANTILLON (c. 1680?-1734) is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of economic theory. He was a very successful merchant and banker of Irish extraction who carried out his business primarily from Paris. Recently, Murphy (1986) has done much to unravel ...

Research paper thumbnail of 2 Political economy, political arithmetic and political medicine in the thought of William Petty

Physicians and political economy: six studies …, Jan 1, 2001

2 Political economy, political arithmetic and political medicine in the thought of William Petty ... more 2 Political economy, political arithmetic and political medicine in the thought of William Petty Tony Aspromourgos Of the four medical men to whom Marx awarded the honour of being the best of the early political economists, Petty has a particularly special place –as founder of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Historical scholarship and publication, or-why do commercial publishers exist?

History of Economics Review, Jan 1, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Petty contra Hobbes: a previously untranslated manuscript

Journal of the History of Ideas, Jan 1, 1985

Presented below, for the first time in English, is a short manuscript written by Sir William Pett... more Presented below, for the first time in English, is a short manuscript written by Sir William Petty (1623-1687) in response to what he perceived to be a central question of Hobbes's political theory: monarchy versus democracy. The Latin text was published in 1927.1 There are ...

Research paper thumbnail of INTEREST AS AN ARTEFACT OF SELF‐VALIDATING CENTRAL BANK BELIEFS

Metroeconomica, Jan 1, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Keynes on wage flexibility and the Australian wages system

Australian economic papers, Jan 1, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Public debt sustainability and alternative theories of interest

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Jan 1, 2010

The evolution and growth of public debt has been a central issue in political economy since at le... more The evolution and growth of public debt has been a central issue in political economy since at least Adam Smith, and indeed earlier. Since Domar (1944), the formal analysis of public debt has focused upon concepts of sustainability and optimality of the trajectory of the stock of ...

Research paper thumbnail of “The Functionless Investor”: Keynes's euthanasia of the rentier revisited'

History and Political Economy: Essays in Honour of …, Jan 1, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Warren Pat Hogan, 1929–2009*

Economic Record, Jan 1, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The invention of the concept of social surplus: Petty in the Hartlib Circle

The European Journal of the History of …, Jan 1, 2005

Among other innovative and important contributions to the formation of political economy, William... more Among other innovative and important contributions to the formation of political economy, William Petty is the originator of the concept of an economic or social surplus, a vital element in the formation of classical economics. It therefore is a natural and intriguing question, how Petty came to ...

Research paper thumbnail of Comment on 'Fiscal Policy and the Job Guarantee'

Australian Journal of Labour Economics ( …, Jan 1, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of The mind of the oeconomist: an overview of the" Petty Papers" archive

History of Economic Ideas, Jan 1, 2001

Research paper thumbnail of On the Origins of Classical Economics:: Distribution and Value from William Petty to Adam Smith

... Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Aspromourgos, Tony, 1957-On the origins o... more ... Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Aspromourgos, Tony, 1957-On the origins of classical economics: distribution and value from William Petty to Adam Smith/Tony Aspromourgos. p. cm. ... v-. [This page intentionally left blank.]. -vi-. CONTENTS. Preface, xi. ...

Research paper thumbnail of On the origins of the term 'neoclassical'

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Jan 1, 1986

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century saw within economics the rise to intellec-tural a... more The late nineteenth and early twentieth century saw within economics the rise to intellec-tural ascendancy of 'marginalism': an approach to value, distribution and output wherein the theories of distribution and relative prices, output(s) and employment, are treated in terms of the ...

Research paper thumbnail of POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE SOCIAL DIVISION OF LABOUR: THE ECONOMICS OF SIR WILLIAM PETTY*

Scottish journal of political economy, Jan 1, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of Is an employer-of-last-resort policy sustainable? A review article

Review of Political Economy, Jan 1, 2000

A radical proposal to address decisively the problem of mass involuntary unemployment, by way of ... more A radical proposal to address decisively the problem of mass involuntary unemployment, by way of a government committing itself to stand ready as 'employer of last resort', has recently been put forward by L. Randall Wray and others. To the question of how such large-scale ...

Research paper thumbnail of Neoclassical

The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of …, Jan 1, 1987

Research paper thumbnail of The science of wealth: Adam Smith and the framing of political economy

Research paper thumbnail of Sraffian research programmes and unorthodox economics

Review of Political Economy, Jan 1, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of The life of William Petty in relation to his economics: a tercentenary interpretation

History of Political Economy, Jan 1, 1988

Correspondence may be addressed to the author, Dept. of Economics, University of Sydney, New Sout... more Correspondence may be addressed to the author, Dept. of Economics, University of Sydney, New South Wales, 2006 AUSTRALIA. 1. For example, Monroe (1923), Johnson (1937), and less explicitly, a host of other writers. 2. Those who have sought, more or less following ...

Research paper thumbnail of The theory of production and distribution in Cantillon's Essai

Oxford Economic Papers, Jan 1, 1989

RICHARD CANTILLON (c. 1680?-1734) is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of economic... more RICHARD CANTILLON (c. 1680?-1734) is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of economic theory. He was a very successful merchant and banker of Irish extraction who carried out his business primarily from Paris. Recently, Murphy (1986) has done much to unravel ...

Research paper thumbnail of 2 Political economy, political arithmetic and political medicine in the thought of William Petty

Physicians and political economy: six studies …, Jan 1, 2001

2 Political economy, political arithmetic and political medicine in the thought of William Petty ... more 2 Political economy, political arithmetic and political medicine in the thought of William Petty Tony Aspromourgos Of the four medical men to whom Marx awarded the honour of being the best of the early political economists, Petty has a particularly special place –as founder of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Historical scholarship and publication, or-why do commercial publishers exist?

History of Economics Review, Jan 1, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Petty contra Hobbes: a previously untranslated manuscript

Journal of the History of Ideas, Jan 1, 1985

Presented below, for the first time in English, is a short manuscript written by Sir William Pett... more Presented below, for the first time in English, is a short manuscript written by Sir William Petty (1623-1687) in response to what he perceived to be a central question of Hobbes's political theory: monarchy versus democracy. The Latin text was published in 1927.1 There are ...

Research paper thumbnail of INTEREST AS AN ARTEFACT OF SELF‐VALIDATING CENTRAL BANK BELIEFS

Metroeconomica, Jan 1, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Keynes on wage flexibility and the Australian wages system

Australian economic papers, Jan 1, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of Public debt sustainability and alternative theories of interest

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Jan 1, 2010

The evolution and growth of public debt has been a central issue in political economy since at le... more The evolution and growth of public debt has been a central issue in political economy since at least Adam Smith, and indeed earlier. Since Domar (1944), the formal analysis of public debt has focused upon concepts of sustainability and optimality of the trajectory of the stock of ...

Research paper thumbnail of “The Functionless Investor”: Keynes's euthanasia of the rentier revisited'

History and Political Economy: Essays in Honour of …, Jan 1, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Warren Pat Hogan, 1929–2009*

Economic Record, Jan 1, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The invention of the concept of social surplus: Petty in the Hartlib Circle

The European Journal of the History of …, Jan 1, 2005

Among other innovative and important contributions to the formation of political economy, William... more Among other innovative and important contributions to the formation of political economy, William Petty is the originator of the concept of an economic or social surplus, a vital element in the formation of classical economics. It therefore is a natural and intriguing question, how Petty came to ...

Research paper thumbnail of Comment on 'Fiscal Policy and the Job Guarantee'

Australian Journal of Labour Economics ( …, Jan 1, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of The mind of the oeconomist: an overview of the" Petty Papers" archive

History of Economic Ideas, Jan 1, 2001