Accumulation and Capital Theory

Edward Nell

Chapter 14 in Joan Robinson and Modern Economic Theory, 1989, pp 377-412 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As Joan Robinson’s views matured, the study of expansion through the accumulation of capital moved more and more to central stage, and she increasingly sought to group other questions around it. Yet it proved a difficult nut to crack. Accumulation has been analyzed by economists in two very different ways, between which she moved uneasily The most common has been to see it as the expansion of the productive potential of an economy with a given technology, which may be improved in the process — this was her basic stance. But it has also been understood as the outright transformation of the technical and productive organization of the economy, an outlook of which she thoroughly approved, but which played almost no role in her analytics.

Keywords: Real Wage; Technical Progress; Capital Good; Natural Rate; Full Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08633-7_14

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