Steindl's speech

Steindl, Josef

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Collection:: Josef Steindl Collection

Title:: Steindl's speech: Symposion in Honour of Josef Steindl, Vienna, May 21-22, 1992

Author:: Steindl, Josef

Scope:: Typoskript, 2 Blätter.

Year of publication:: 1992

Language:: English

Description:: "Dear friends, I have had so far the privilege of leaning back and listening only..." (Auszug, S.1) Participants: T. Scitovsky (Stanford University): The Political Economy of Josef Steindl; G.C. Harcourt (University of Cambridge): Josef Steindl – What He Means to my Generation; A. Roncaglia (University of Rome): Josef Steindl’s Relations to Italian Economics; A. Guger, E. Walterskirchen (WIFO): Steindl at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research; K. Cowling (University of Warwick): Monopoly Capitalism and Stagnation P. Sylos-Labini (University of Rome); J. A. Kregel (University of Bologna): Some Reflections on Technical Progress in Financing Small Firms; H. D. Kurz (University of Graz): Growth and Distribution; P. Rosner (University of Vienna): Josef Steindl on Marx; K. Laski (WIIW): Effective Demand and the Transition Process in Eastern Europe; G. Chaloupek (AK-Wien): The Concept of Maturity and the Transformation of Economic Systems; G. Tichy (University of Graz): Steindl on Instability and Stabilization Policy; E. Matzner (University of Technology): The Context in Economic Policy.

Subject:: Steindl, Josef <1912-1993>

Note:: Titel und Untertitel fingiert. Dankesrede von Josef Steindl anlässlich des ihm gewidmeten Symposiums in Wien, 21-22.Mai, 1992.

Related work:: Steindl, Josef: Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1952

Topic:: Economic history,economic theory,current developments

JEL Classification:: B31 [History of Economic Thought: Individuals]

Shelfmark:: S/M.77.5

Access:: Free access

which the roads have taken up all the space - everything else has been blotted out. You drive and drive and drive and you don't get anywhere. This is not a prediction, however. Economists are generally not very good at predictions, because economics always turns round and round in circles, whereas history produces all the time new situations. Only my old guru Kalecki was famous for making correct predictions, also when he was joking. He might suggest in a satyrical mood some incredible absurdity, earning due laughter, and after a while the absurd thing did actually happen. Since this happened more than once, Kalecki finally said he would henceforth have to refrain from making jokes. I wish I would have his capacity for making jokes even at the risk of increasing the mumber of absurdities in this world which has already a full measure of them. However, I do not have this or any other of his capacities. I am well aware of my limitations. In fact I think of myself and my decrepit old age only as an excuse for having this meeting with a number of guests who are not only excellent economists but also very nice people. I hope this will not be without lasting contacts and stimuli. I hope our guests will pass the few days in a pleasant way and bear away a friendly recollection of the occasion.

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