TY - BOOK AU - Schefold,Bertram TI - Normal prices, technical change, and accumulation SN - 0333621298 U1 - 338.52 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - St. Martin's Press KW - Production (Economic theory) KW - Prices KW - Technological innovations KW - Saving and investment KW - Equilibrium (Economics) KW - Economics, Mathematical N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 550-562) and index; Preface -- Introduction: Sraff's Theory Today -- PART 1: GENERAL PROPERTIES OF SINGLE AND JOINT PRODUCTION SYSTEMS -- Multiple Product Techniques With Properties of Single Product Systems -- Relative Prices as a Function of the Rate of Profit: A Mathematical Note -- The Standard Commodity as a Tool of Economic Analysis -- PART 2: THE DOMINANT TECHNIQUE -- On Counting Equations -- Von Neumann and Sraffa: Mathematical Equivalence and Conceptual Difference -- The Dominant Technique in Joint Production Systems -- Joint Production: A Further Assessment -- PART 3: FIXED CAPITAL AND TECHNICAL PROGRESS -- Fixed Capital as a Joint Product -- Reduction to Dated Quantities of Labour, Roundabout Processes, and Switches of Technique in Fixed Capital Systems -- Different Forms of Technical Progress -- Capital, Growth, and Definitions of Technical Progress -- PART 4: THE COMPOSITION OF OUTPUT -- Sraffa and Applied Economics: Joint Production -- On Changes in the Composition of Output -- PART 5: RELATIONS BETWEEN CLASSICAL, NEOCLASSICAL AND KEYNESIAN THEORIES -- Joint Production, Intertemporal Preferences and Long-Period Equilibrium -- The Market and the Classical Theory of Prices -- On the Classical and Marshallian Foundation of Keynesian and Post-Keynesian Economics -- Classical Theory and Intertemporal Equilibrium -- Schumpeter as a Walrasian Austrian and Keynes as a Classical Marshallian -- Ecological Problems as a Challenge to Classical and Keynesian Economics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index ER -