Table of Contents

Introduction Tracy Mott and Nina ShapiroPart One: Concentration and Development2. Reproduction and Transformation in the Theory of the Market: Observations on Josef Steindl's Theory of Capitalist Dynamics David P. Levine3. Steindl's Analysis of Firm Growth and the Tendency Toward Industry Concentration Harry Bloch4. An Application of Steindl's Theory of Concentration to the U.S. Meat Packing Industry, 1865-1988 Julie A. HogelandPart Two: Distribution and Growth5. Steindl's Theory of Maturity and Stagnation and Its Relevance Today Amitava Krishna Dutt6. On Industry Concentration and the Transition to Monopoly Capitalism: A Knife-Edge Model of 'Steindlian' Dynamics Marcellus Andrews7. Steindl on Growth and Cycles Marc JarsulicPart Three: Maturity and Stagnation8. Methodology and Industrial Maturity in Steindl's Capitalism Jan Toporowski9. Market-Limited Growth and Twentieth Century Economic History: Rethinking Economic Stagnation in the American Case Michael A. Bernstein10. Monopoly Capitalism and Stagnation Keith Cowling11. Trend and Cycle Josef Steindl

About the Author

Tracy Mott is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Denver. He is the author of Kalecki's Principle of Increasing Risk and Keynesian Economics, forthcoming from Routledge. Nina Shapiro is Professor of Economics at Saint Peter's College, New Jersey. She is on the Managerial Board of Editors of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, and has numerous publications in both micro and macroeconomics. She has written entries on Josef Steindl in The Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, and contributed to A 'Second Edition' of The General Theory (1997).