James C W Ahiakpor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 286216 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James C W Ahiakpor |
| PRENOMES | James C W |
| SOBRENOME | Ahiakpor |
| ASSINATURA | AHIAKPOR J C W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | California State University System |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Misrepresenting occurrences and personalities in Ghana, 1979-1983
Frank Gerits’s article contains several misrepresentations and false claims about events and personalities in Ghana during the turbulent years of 1979 through 1983. The most serious of these are his treatments of Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings and Dr. Kwesi Botchwey. Gerits ignores Rawlings’s own explanations for his actions and misrepresents Botchwey’s arguments in two essays. The important lessons for economic policy formulation and governance in the …
On the Similarities between the 1932 Harvard Memorandum and the Chicago Antidepression Recommendations
Both the 1932 Harvard and Chicago recommendations for dealing with the Great Depression include vigorous open market purchases by the Fed; federal government deficit spending, including public works, financed by new money creation; reduction in tariffs; and the cancellation of inter-allied debts. The similarities are no coincidence, since both documents draw mostly from well-known classical and early neoclassical monetary analysis and free trade …
Laurence Steven Moss, 1944-2009
Larry Moss lived a busy life as an academic, a professor, an attorney, a journal editor, and a skilled magician. He was a prolific publisher of scholarly articles and books, and an editor of scholarly volumes. With friendly charm and humor, he sought to encourage others in their scholarly pursuits. He employed his magical skills to enliven his courses and to illustrate certain economic phenomena. Larry served the History of Economics Society in i…
Garrison on Mises and Forced Saving
Research Article| June 01 2008 Garrison on Mises and Forced Saving: Arguing the Implausible? James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (2): 383–395. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2008-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; Garrison on Mises and Forced Saving: Argui…
George Reisman on National Income Accounting
George Reisman misrepresents macroeconomists' estimation of national income. He fails to distinguish between intermediate goods and factors of production, and he does not correctly recognize macroeconomists' derivation of the net domestic or national product. His concept of gross national product is also grossly mistaken. This note offers a correction for his confusion
On the Future of Keynesian Economics
Keynesianism continues to lose its dominance in macroeconomics. New Keynesians attempt to rescue it from irrelevance with models recognizing (1) the noninstantaneous adjustment of product prices, (2) imperfect knowledge, and (3) nonclearing labor markets. But these are conditions recognized in classical macroeconomics. The new, post-, and neoclassical Keynesians also seem to be unaware that the five principal pillars upon which Keynes founded his…
On the Mythology of the Keynesian Multiplier
Keynes's multiplier story invites acceptance by building on the fact that people typically consume only a fraction of their income and that such purchases are incomes for sellers. By misrepresenting the classical definition of saving and the meaning of Say's Law, Keynes laid the grounds for extolling the virtues of consumption spending as determining income and employment growth. But the mythology of the multiplier story becomes clear when we ask…
Hawtrey on the Keynesian Multiplier
Research Article| November 01 2000 Hawtrey on the Keynesian Multiplier: A Question of Cognitive Dissonance? James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 889–908. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-4-889 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; Hawtrey on the Keynesian M…
Wicksell on the Classical Theories of Money, Credit, Interest and the Price Level
Knut Wicksell occupies a significant place in the history of monetary economics as the developer of the "cumulative process" by which deviations between the market and "natural" rates of interest cause the price level to change persistently. A more accurate version of the same argument is a part of classical monetary analysis but there the process originates from a change in base money or central bank credit while Wicksell's version may be initia…
Austrian Capital Theory
This article examines the Austrian theory of capital and its role in explaining policy-induced business cycles. Modern Austrian economists argue that the structure of production, particularly the degree of capital intensity, is influenced by interest rates. Low interest rates incentivize greater capital intensity, while high rates discourage it. They contend that artificially low interest rates caused by central bank credit expansion lead to unsu…
All the Difference
Rawlings, Economic Policy Reform, and the Poor
Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings has presided over two distinct types of régime as far as economic policy is concerned since the overthrow of the Third Republic at the end of 1981. The first was characterised by the extensive intrusion of the state, or by those claiming to act on its behalf, in directing economic activity, notably the sale of goods and services. The other, since 1983, has witnessed greater reliance on the market freedom of indivi…
On Keynes's Misinterpretation of "Capital" in the Classical Theory of Interest
Research Article| September 01 1990 On Keynes's Misinterpretation of “Capital” in the Classical Theory of Interest James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (3): 507–528. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-22-3-507 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; On Keynes's Misinte…
Do Firms Choose Inappropriate Technology in LDCs
Drawing Misleading Conclusions from One-Period Data
(1989). Drawing Misleading Conclusions from One-Period Data: A Comment on Anyinam. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des etudes africaines: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 295-296
Recognizing 'Left' from 'Right' in Ghana
The profits of foreign firms in a less developed country
The capital intensity of foreign, private local and state owned firms in a less developed country
The success and failure of dependency theory
Dependency theory is a set of ideas with a strong potential for influencing policy actions in the Third World. Originally developed during the late 1960s to explain the problems of development in Latin America by scholars working in that region, the theory has attracted a great deal of attention both in the literature and in Third World countries. Though the logical consistency and empirical validity of the theory have been questioned, evidence a…
Ricardo on Money
Research Article| March 01 1985 Ricardo on Money: The Operational Significance of the Non-Neutrality of Money in the Short Run James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (1): 17–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-17-1-17 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; Ricardo on…
Henry Thornton and the Development of Ricardo's Economic Thought
Research Article| March 01 1982 Henry Thornton and the Development of Ricardo's Economic Thought: a Comment James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (1): 112–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-14-1-112 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; Henry Thornton and the Deve…
Ricardo on the Non-Neutrality of Money in a World with Taxes
Research Article| June 01 1982 Ricardo on the Non-Neutrality of Money in a World with Taxes Jack L. Carr; Jack L. Carr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google James Ahiakpor James Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (2): 147–165. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-14-2-147 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site…
The success and failure of dependency theory
Dependency theory is a set of ideas with a strong potential for influencing policy actions in the Third World. Originally developed during the late 1960s to explain the problems of development in Latin America by scholars working in that region, the theory has attracted a great deal of attention both in the literature and in Third World countries. Though the logical consistency and empirical validity of the theory have been questioned, evidence a…
On Keynes's Misinterpretation of "Capital" in the Classical Theory of Interest
Research Article| September 01 1990 On Keynes's Misinterpretation of “Capital” in the Classical Theory of Interest James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (3): 507–528. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-22-3-507 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; On Keynes's Misinte…
Rawlings, Economic Policy Reform, and the Poor
Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings has presided over two distinct types of régime as far as economic policy is concerned since the overthrow of the Third Republic at the end of 1981. The first was characterised by the extensive intrusion of the state, or by those claiming to act on its behalf, in directing economic activity, notably the sale of goods and services. The other, since 1983, has witnessed greater reliance on the market freedom of indivi…
Ricardo on Money
Research Article| March 01 1985 Ricardo on Money: The Operational Significance of the Non-Neutrality of Money in the Short Run James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (1): 17–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-17-1-17 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; Ricardo on…
On the Mythology of the Keynesian Multiplier
Keynes's multiplier story invites acceptance by building on the fact that people typically consume only a fraction of their income and that such purchases are incomes for sellers. By misrepresenting the classical definition of saving and the meaning of Say's Law, Keynes laid the grounds for extolling the virtues of consumption spending as determining income and employment growth. But the mythology of the multiplier story becomes clear when we ask…
Henry Thornton and the Development of Ricardo's Economic Thought
Research Article| March 01 1982 Henry Thornton and the Development of Ricardo's Economic Thought: a Comment James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (1): 112–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-14-1-112 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; Henry Thornton and the Deve…
Austrian Capital Theory
This article examines the Austrian theory of capital and its role in explaining policy-induced business cycles. Modern Austrian economists argue that the structure of production, particularly the degree of capital intensity, is influenced by interest rates. Low interest rates incentivize greater capital intensity, while high rates discourage it. They contend that artificially low interest rates caused by central bank credit expansion lead to unsu…
On the Similarities between the 1932 Harvard Memorandum and the Chicago Antidepression Recommendations
Both the 1932 Harvard and Chicago recommendations for dealing with the Great Depression include vigorous open market purchases by the Fed; federal government deficit spending, including public works, financed by new money creation; reduction in tariffs; and the cancellation of inter-allied debts. The similarities are no coincidence, since both documents draw mostly from well-known classical and early neoclassical monetary analysis and free trade …
Wicksell on the Classical Theories of Money, Credit, Interest and the Price Level
Knut Wicksell occupies a significant place in the history of monetary economics as the developer of the "cumulative process" by which deviations between the market and "natural" rates of interest cause the price level to change persistently. A more accurate version of the same argument is a part of classical monetary analysis but there the process originates from a change in base money or central bank credit while Wicksell's version may be initia…
The capital intensity of foreign, private local and state owned firms in a less developed country
Laurence Steven Moss, 1944-2009
Larry Moss lived a busy life as an academic, a professor, an attorney, a journal editor, and a skilled magician. He was a prolific publisher of scholarly articles and books, and an editor of scholarly volumes. With friendly charm and humor, he sought to encourage others in their scholarly pursuits. He employed his magical skills to enliven his courses and to illustrate certain economic phenomena. Larry served the History of Economics Society in i…
Garrison on Mises and Forced Saving
Research Article| June 01 2008 Garrison on Mises and Forced Saving: Arguing the Implausible? James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (2): 383–395. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2008-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; Garrison on Mises and Forced Saving: Argui…
George Reisman on National Income Accounting
George Reisman misrepresents macroeconomists' estimation of national income. He fails to distinguish between intermediate goods and factors of production, and he does not correctly recognize macroeconomists' derivation of the net domestic or national product. His concept of gross national product is also grossly mistaken. This note offers a correction for his confusion
On the Future of Keynesian Economics
Keynesianism continues to lose its dominance in macroeconomics. New Keynesians attempt to rescue it from irrelevance with models recognizing (1) the noninstantaneous adjustment of product prices, (2) imperfect knowledge, and (3) nonclearing labor markets. But these are conditions recognized in classical macroeconomics. The new, post-, and neoclassical Keynesians also seem to be unaware that the five principal pillars upon which Keynes founded his…
Do Firms Choose Inappropriate Technology in LDCs
Ricardo on the Non-Neutrality of Money in a World with Taxes
Research Article| June 01 1982 Ricardo on the Non-Neutrality of Money in a World with Taxes Jack L. Carr; Jack L. Carr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google James Ahiakpor James Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (2): 147–165. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-14-2-147 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site…
Henry Thornton and the Development of Ricardo's Economic Thought
Research Article| March 01 1982 Henry Thornton and the Development of Ricardo's Economic Thought: a Comment James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (1): 112–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-14-1-112 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; Henry Thornton and the Deve…
Ricardo on the Non-Neutrality of Money in a World with Taxes
Research Article| June 01 1982 Ricardo on the Non-Neutrality of Money in a World with Taxes Jack L. Carr; Jack L. Carr Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google James Ahiakpor James Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (2): 147–165. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-14-2-147 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site…
The success and failure of dependency theory
Dependency theory is a set of ideas with a strong potential for influencing policy actions in the Third World. Originally developed during the late 1960s to explain the problems of development in Latin America by scholars working in that region, the theory has attracted a great deal of attention both in the literature and in Third World countries. Though the logical consistency and empirical validity of the theory have been questioned, evidence a…
Ricardo on Money
Research Article| March 01 1985 Ricardo on Money: The Operational Significance of the Non-Neutrality of Money in the Short Run James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1985) 17 (1): 17–30. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-17-1-17 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; Ricardo on…
The profits of foreign firms in a less developed country
The capital intensity of foreign, private local and state owned firms in a less developed country
Recognizing 'Left' from 'Right' in Ghana
Do Firms Choose Inappropriate Technology in LDCs
Drawing Misleading Conclusions from One-Period Data
(1989). Drawing Misleading Conclusions from One-Period Data: A Comment on Anyinam. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des etudes africaines: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 295-296
On Keynes's Misinterpretation of "Capital" in the Classical Theory of Interest
Research Article| September 01 1990 On Keynes's Misinterpretation of “Capital” in the Classical Theory of Interest James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1990) 22 (3): 507–528. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-22-3-507 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; On Keynes's Misinte…
Rawlings, Economic Policy Reform, and the Poor
Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings has presided over two distinct types of régime as far as economic policy is concerned since the overthrow of the Third Republic at the end of 1981. The first was characterised by the extensive intrusion of the state, or by those claiming to act on its behalf, in directing economic activity, notably the sale of goods and services. The other, since 1983, has witnessed greater reliance on the market freedom of indivi…
All the Difference
Austrian Capital Theory
This article examines the Austrian theory of capital and its role in explaining policy-induced business cycles. Modern Austrian economists argue that the structure of production, particularly the degree of capital intensity, is influenced by interest rates. Low interest rates incentivize greater capital intensity, while high rates discourage it. They contend that artificially low interest rates caused by central bank credit expansion lead to unsu…
Wicksell on the Classical Theories of Money, Credit, Interest and the Price Level
Knut Wicksell occupies a significant place in the history of monetary economics as the developer of the "cumulative process" by which deviations between the market and "natural" rates of interest cause the price level to change persistently. A more accurate version of the same argument is a part of classical monetary analysis but there the process originates from a change in base money or central bank credit while Wicksell's version may be initia…
Hawtrey on the Keynesian Multiplier
Research Article| November 01 2000 Hawtrey on the Keynesian Multiplier: A Question of Cognitive Dissonance? James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (4): 889–908. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-4-889 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; Hawtrey on the Keynesian M…
On the Mythology of the Keynesian Multiplier
Keynes's multiplier story invites acceptance by building on the fact that people typically consume only a fraction of their income and that such purchases are incomes for sellers. By misrepresenting the classical definition of saving and the meaning of Say's Law, Keynes laid the grounds for extolling the virtues of consumption spending as determining income and employment growth. But the mythology of the multiplier story becomes clear when we ask…
On the Future of Keynesian Economics
Keynesianism continues to lose its dominance in macroeconomics. New Keynesians attempt to rescue it from irrelevance with models recognizing (1) the noninstantaneous adjustment of product prices, (2) imperfect knowledge, and (3) nonclearing labor markets. But these are conditions recognized in classical macroeconomics. The new, post-, and neoclassical Keynesians also seem to be unaware that the five principal pillars upon which Keynes founded his…
George Reisman on National Income Accounting
George Reisman misrepresents macroeconomists' estimation of national income. He fails to distinguish between intermediate goods and factors of production, and he does not correctly recognize macroeconomists' derivation of the net domestic or national product. His concept of gross national product is also grossly mistaken. This note offers a correction for his confusion
Garrison on Mises and Forced Saving
Research Article| June 01 2008 Garrison on Mises and Forced Saving: Arguing the Implausible? James C. W. Ahiakpor James C. W. Ahiakpor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (2): 383–395. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-2008-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation James C. W. Ahiakpor; Garrison on Mises and Forced Saving: Argui…
On the Similarities between the 1932 Harvard Memorandum and the Chicago Antidepression Recommendations
Both the 1932 Harvard and Chicago recommendations for dealing with the Great Depression include vigorous open market purchases by the Fed; federal government deficit spending, including public works, financed by new money creation; reduction in tariffs; and the cancellation of inter-allied debts. The similarities are no coincidence, since both documents draw mostly from well-known classical and early neoclassical monetary analysis and free trade …
Laurence Steven Moss, 1944-2009
Larry Moss lived a busy life as an academic, a professor, an attorney, a journal editor, and a skilled magician. He was a prolific publisher of scholarly articles and books, and an editor of scholarly volumes. With friendly charm and humor, he sought to encourage others in their scholarly pursuits. He employed his magical skills to enliven his courses and to illustrate certain economic phenomena. Larry served the History of Economics Society in i…
Misrepresenting occurrences and personalities in Ghana, 1979-1983
Frank Gerits’s article contains several misrepresentations and false claims about events and personalities in Ghana during the turbulent years of 1979 through 1983. The most serious of these are his treatments of Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings and Dr. Kwesi Botchwey. Gerits ignores Rawlings’s own explanations for his actions and misrepresents Botchwey’s arguments in two essays. The important lessons for economic policy formulation and governance in the …
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