Moving targets: the multifarious world of Paolo Sylos Labini
评述了西洛斯·拉比尼的一本文集,强调其动态视角在分析经济过程及制度背景中的应用,涉及通货膨胀、失业、商业周期、技术进步和寡头垄断等问题,并揭示其介于新古典、凯恩斯和熊彼特学派之间的独特立场。
The paper reviews a book by Sylos Labini consisting of ten previously published articles, specially adapted for this edition. The book provides an excellent introduction to Sylos' work. It is characterised above all by his stress on the importance of a dynamic perspective. He applies this perspective both to the analysis of the economic processes as such and to the institutional background against which these processes must be seen. The paper tries to extract from the book a concentrated picture of the methodological approach and its application to problems of inflation, unemployment, business cycles, technical progress and oligopoly. Sylos' special position between different ‘schools’—neoclassical, Keynesian, Schumpeterian—becomes evident.