John Kenneth Galbraith and the Future of Economics

BLANDINE LAPERCHE is Assistant Professor of Economics and Head of the Firms and innovation team within the research group on industry and innovation at the University of Littoral Cote d'Opale, France. She specializes in industrial economics and the economics of innovation. She has recently published L'innovation orchestree: Risque et organisation. DIMITRI UZUNIDIS is Director of the research group on industry and innovation at the University of Littoral Cote d'Opale, France. He has provided expertise to several international organizations and specializes in the economics of innovation from an international perspective. He has published several books dealing with economic change, the most recent being Innovation and Contemporary Economics.

• Preface; J.K.Galbraith PART 1: BACK TO JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Galbraith: A Partisan Appraisal; J.K.Galbraith Where Did Galbraith's Ideas Come From? R.Parker Galbraith and the Post Keynesians; P.Davidson J.K. Galbraith, Economist of the Peace; J.Fontanel & F.Coulomb John Kenneth Galbraith and the Incompleted Task of Progress; N.Birnbaum PART 2: THE TROUBLE WITH ECONOMISTS AND POLICIES The Bias in Academic Economics: The Economics Salon; J.Madrick Reframing Capitalism; J.Sawyer Power and Institutions in Macroeconomic Theory; J.Cornwall & W.Cornwall Reinventing Fiscal Policy; P.Arestis & M.Sawyer Alternatives for the Policy Framework of the Euro; P.Arestis & M.Sawyer Promoting Growth and Welfare in a Changing Europe; J-L.Gaffard PART 3: ECONOMIES IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT: A PROGRAM OF ACTION The Future of the International Financial System; P.Davidson John Kenneth Galbraith and the Anatomy of Russian Capitalism; S.Menshikov Escaping the Squeeze: Lessons from East Asia on How Middle-Income Countries can Grow Faster; R.Wade The Third World's Debt Problem; K.Raffer Global Organization and Developing Countries: Current Aspects of Neo-mercantilism and of the Global Framework of Accumulation; D.Uzunidis