Victoria Chick (1936–2023), a Restless Challenger to Mainstream Economics: An Appreciation

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Main author: Marcuzzo, Maria Cristina
Other authors: Repapis, Constantinos
Toporowski, Jan
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description In this article on Victoria (Vicky) Chick (1936–2023), we intend to cover the main research areas into which Chick devoted her life’s work. We categorise the contributions into three broad fields. First, her work on Keynes’s General Theory and the message that economists have taken from it since its publication. Chick wrote extensively on the many misinterpretations of the General Theory that have clouded its message. Instead, through her writings, she offered an alternative perspective and interpretative line that became central to the post-Keynesian school of thought. Second, her work on Keynes gave her the starting point for her novel understanding on the monetary nature of the economy and was the inspiration in the development of the banking stages of history approach that shows the evolutionary nature of banking theory and practice. Finally, the way in which The General Theory built its argument and the misinterpretation that many mainstream economists took from it led Chick to develop her methodological approach on open and closed systems of analysis and the importance of developing judgement as part of teaching in economics.
format Journal Article
author Marcuzzo, Maria Cristina
author_facet Marcuzzo, Maria Cristina
Repapis, Constantinos
Toporowski, Jan
authorStr Marcuzzo, Maria Cristina
author_letter Marcuzzo, Maria Cristina
author2 Repapis, Constantinos
Toporowski, Jan
author2Str Repapis, Constantinos
Toporowski, Jan
title Victoria Chick (1936–2023), a Restless Challenger to Mainstream Economics: An Appreciation
publisher Oxford University Press
publishDate 2024
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/41905/

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