Athanasios Asimakopulos

Athanasios Asimakopulos (1930-1990) was the "William Dow Professor of Political Economy" in the Department of Economics, McGill University (Montreal) and became an important "Post-Keynesian economist. His monograph (Keynes's General Theory and Accumulation), part of the Modern Cambridge Economics series, reviews important areas of Keynes's General Theory and the theories of accumulation of two of his most distinguished followers, Roy Harrod and Joan Robinson.

"Tom Asimakopulos was a great Kaleckian scholar. His knowledge of the nuances and innuendos of Kalecki's approach to macroeconomics had no equal." Paul Davidson, Journal of Economic Issues

"This book (Keynes's General Theory and Accumulation) is the legacy of a dedicated and tough-minded scholar who did his heroes the compliment of taking their work seriously, rather than just praising it." Robert W. Dimand, History of Political Economy

Major works published

Major works by Athanasios Asimakopulos::

• Keynes's General Theory and Accumulation (Modern Cambridge Economics Series) (Print on Demand). Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0521368154

• Economic Theory, Welfare, and the State: Essays in Honour of John C. Weldon, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. ISBN 0773508538

• Investment, Employment, and Income Distribution (Aspects of Political Economy). # Westview Pr (Short Disc), 1988. ISBN 0813307899

• A Synoptic View of Some Simple Models of Growth, with J.C. Weldon, 1965, Canadian JE and PS

• A Robinsonian Growth Model in One-Sector Notation, 1969, Australian EP

• The Determination of Investment in Keynes's Model, 1971, Canadian JE

• "A Kaleckian Theory of Income Distribution", 1975, Canadian JE

• An Introduction to Economic Theory: Microeconomics, Oxford University Press, 1978. ISBN 0195402812

• Keynes's Theory of Effective Demand Revisited, 1982, Australian EP

• Kalecki and Keynes on Finance, Investment and Saving, 1983, Cambridge JE

• Finance, Saving and Investment, 1986, JPKE

• La Signification theorique de la Theorie generale de Keynes, 1987, in Boismenu and Dostaler, La Theorie generale et le keynesianisme

• Investment, Employment and Income Distribution, 1988