56 research outputs found
Fragments, spolia and economic texts
No full textThis paper attempts to form a connection across three disparate fields. First, it will argue that Schlegel had a consistent and modern view on the importance of the fragment in understanding contemporary reality. This view defines the romantic perspective and imbues the objects or text it glorifies with a meaning that is suggestive rather than definite. From these tentative remarks, the argument will move to the Arch of Constantine, built during (or before?) the 4th century AD, and will discuss both the use of spolia as fragments that display their association with their past, and as promises that these will become a basis for some new symbolism pregnant of an imagined future. From this application of Schlegel’s remarks on the history of viewing the arch, we will move to Keynes’ General Theory, in order to see how a text, like an architectural object, can display references as spolia of a past and of a future at the same time. Through its explicitly disjoined message, the GT steeps the reader in the context that these references bring with them, and the reader takes as given in order to construct an understanding of the text. This process, by refocusing the attention from the fragmentary text and its incomplete meaning back to the reader and the interpretive tools they bring with them or/and “discover” in an implied form in the text, allows the reader to imagine new spaces of meaning and build potential future understandings
Professor Geoff Harcourt on Keynesian Theory
No full textGeoff Harcourt is Emeritus Reader, Cambridge University and Professor Emeritus, University of Adelaide
Interviewer: Dr. Constantinos Repapis
The topics discussed in the video include:
- Origins of Keynesian economics & effective demand
- The Cambridge capital theory controversy
- The nature of Post-Keynesian economics
- Major Post-Keynesian economists and their theorie
Professor Julie Nelson on Feminist Economics
No full textInterviewer: Dr. Constantinos Repapis
Production: Dr. Ricardo Leizaola
Interview date: 17 January 2017
Place: Goldsmiths, University of London
The topics discussed in the video include:
- The definition of feminist economics
- Feminist economics and methodological pluralism
- The economics curriculum: alternative definitions of economics
- Sustainability and ecological economic
Professor Sheila Dow on Pluralism in Economics
No full textSheila Dow is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Stirling, UK and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria, Canada.
Interviewer: Dr. Constantinos Repapis
Production: Dr. Ricardo Leizaola
Interview date: 13 July 2016
Place: Darwin College, Cambridge
The topics discussed in the video include:
- The current state of economics
- Pluralism and schools of economic thought
- Modes of thought: Euclidean vs. Babylonian
- How should economics be taught
Introduction to the volume Economics and Art Theory
No full textThe topic of Economics and Art Theory, that this volume intends to make a contribution to, appears at the same time to be both extremely wide in what it can encompass and quite narrow in what overlap may exist between these two distinct fields of thought and knowledge. The contribution of this volume is to instigate new avenues of dialogue and research between economics, the humanities and art by discussing fundamental questions on the nature of social reality and the ways we can go about investigating it
G.L.S. Shackle’s library and his readings: An archival excursus and an addendum to Meadows (1997).
No full textThis brief note gives an addendum to Meadows (1997) of G.L.S. Shackle’s working library during his lifetime and an account of his marginal annotations during the first, formative period of his academic life- this is the period from the early 1930s until the end of WWII. The narratives that this material can give rise to, have been explored in a companion paper (Repapis (2017)). What this note details is the extent and wealth of the material, showing that it is both unique, and an important source in our efforts to understand the contemporary reception of the developments in economic theory in the 1930s, and more broadly during the 20th century
Parameters affecting the fundamental period of infilled RC frame structures
No full textDespite the fact that the fundamental period appears to be one of the most critical parameters for the seismic design of structures according to the modal superposition method, the so far available in the literature proposals for its estimation are often conflicting with each other making their use uncertain. Furthermore, the majority of these proposals do not take into account the presence of infills walls into the structure despite the fact that infill walls increase the stiffness and mass of structure leading to significant changes in the fundamental period numerical value. Toward this end, this paper presents a detailed and indepth analytical investigation on the parameters that affect the fundamental period of reinforce concrete structure. The calculated values of the fundamental period are compared against those obtained from the seismic code and equations proposed by various researchers in the literature. From the analysis of the results it has been found that the number of storeys, the span length, the stiffness of the infill wall panels, the location of the soft storeys and the soil type are crucial parameters that influence the fundamental period of RC buildings
Book review: Mark G Hayes, 'John Maynard Keynes: The Art of Choosing the Right Model'
No full textMark Hayes’ John Maynard Keynes. The Art of Choosing the Right Model published by Polity Press is the second book by Hayes that gives a general overview of his reading on Keynes’ writings and specifically of The General Theory. It comes 13 years after The Economics of Keynes: A New Guide to The General Theory, (2006, Edward Elgar)
Fundamental period of infilled reinforced concrete frame structures
No full textThe fundamental period of vibration appears to be one of the most critical parameters for the seismic design and assessment of structures. In the present paper, the results of a large-scale analytical investigation on the parameters that affect the fundamental period of reinforced concrete structures are presented. The influence of the number of storeys, the number of spans, the span length, the infill wall panel stiffness and the percentage of openings within the infill panel on the fundamental period of infilled RC frames was investigated. Based on these results, a regression analysis is applied in order to propose a new empirical equation for the estimation of the fundamental period. The derived equation is shown to have better predictive power compared with equations available in the literature
W. Stark, J.M. Keynes, and the Mercantilists
No full textIn this paper we investigate Werner Stark’s sociology of knowledge approach in the history of economic thought. This paper explores: 1) The strengths and weaknesses of Stark’s approach to historiography, 2) seeing how this can frame an understanding of mercantilist writings and, 3) develop a link between a pluralist understanding of economics, and the sociology of knowledge approach. The reason for developing this link is to extend the sociology of knowledge approach to encompass a pluralist understanding of economic theorising and, at the same time, clarify the link between context and economic theory. John Maynard Keynes’ practice of building narratives of intellectual traditions as evidenced in The General Theory is used to develop a position between an understanding of history of economic thought as the evolution of abstract and de-contextualized economic theorising and, the view of economic theory as only relevant within the social conditions from which it arose
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