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I have always felt that it was a serious misfortune that religion came to the West in the form of an implausible piece of history for this created a clash between the requirements for the development of spiritual life and the requirements of intellectual honesty. At a lower level — the sphere of economic theory — there is a similar conflict between ideology and logic.
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See, for example, J. E. Roemer, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 3, no. 4, December 1979.
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, (London, Allen & Unwin, 1943).
Professor Lord Kaldor, Origins of New Monetarism (University College Cardiff, 1981).
For an analysis of development up to 1920 see Tarling and Wilkinson, ‘The movement of real wages and the development of collective bargaining in the period 1855 to 1920’ in Contributions to Political Economy, supplement to the Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1982.
See Tarling and Wilkinson, ‘The Social Contract: Post-War Incomes Policies and Their Inflationary Impact’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1977.
Roger Tarling and Frank Wilkinson, Inflation and Unemployment — A critique of Meade’s Solution, CEPR, vol. 8, no. 1, April 1982.
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Robinson, J., Wilkinson, F. (1985). Ideology and Logic. In: Vicarelli, F. (eds) Keynes’s Relevance Today. Keynesian Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17834-6_5
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