Nicholas Kaldor's economic thought: his vision of democratic socialism

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23730205
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Economic doctrine/Economic thought
• Research Institution: Saitama University
• Principal Investigator: KIMURA Yuichi 埼玉大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (80436740)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: カルドア / LSE / ロビンズ / ケンブリッジ / 成長と分配 / 技術進歩 / 労働党 / ロビンソン

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research deals with Nicholas Kaldor's economic thought from the point of the following points: (1) his contributions toward pure economic theories such as the cobweb theory, imperfect competition, general equilibrium, Hayek's trade cycle, Keynesian economics etc., (2) creating the vision of the welfare economic world, (3) his contribution toward development's economic theories, (4) opposing british entry into the Common Market such as E.C. and on monetary unions, (5)the expenditure tax and the selective employment tax, (6) his new approaches to growth and distribution theory in Modern Cambridge School, (7) the watershed of Kaldor's inaugural lecture 1966, Kaldor's laws from the Verdoorn and A. Young, (8) supposing economics without equilibrium, and opposing against Monetarism, (9) his view of democratic socialism.

Free Research Field

現代経済学・経済思想史