Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory: Volume Two: Aggregate Demand, Policy Analysis and

PART I: DEMAND-LED GROWTH IN THE CLASSICAL APPROACH 1. Public Debt and Aggregate Demand; Roberto Ciccone 2. The inevitable Dependence of Investment on Expected Demand: Implications for Neoclassical Macroeconomics; Fabio Petri 3. The Meaning of Output Trends in the Analysis of Growth; Attilio Trezzini 4. Potential Output and Demand-led Growth; Antonella Palumbo 5. An Historical Approach to Demand-Led Growth Theory; Matthew Smith 6. Normal Paths of Growth Shaped by the Supermultiplier; Oscar Dejuan 7. The Pattern of Economic Growth of the Brazilian Economy 1970-2005: A Demand-led Growth Perspective; Fabio N. P. de Freitas and Esther Dweck PART II: UNDERSTANDING THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER 8. Continuity and Change in the International Economic Order: Towards a Sraffian Interpretation of the Change in the Trend of Commodity Prices in the 2000s; Franklin Serrano 9. The Political Economy of the Rise and Decline of Developmental States; Carlos Aguiar de Medeiros 10. Harmonic and Conflict Views in International Economic Relations: a Sraffian view; Sergio Cesaratto 11. Lessons From the Crisis: The Macroeconomics of Leverage; Paolo Leon