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RRPE’s Memorial Symposium on Professor Jim Crotty* Some Reflections on Jim Crotty: His Life and Contributions to Economics

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  • Gerald Epstein
  • Robert Pollin

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Jim Crotty was a beloved teacher and mentor and a treasured colleague at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. In this short essay, we try to convey Jim’s enormous contributions to his students, colleagues, and friends, and to the development and reproduction of heterodox macroeconomic theory and practice. JEL Classification: B4, B5, E

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  • Gerald Epstein & Robert Pollin, 2023. "RRPE’s Memorial Symposium on Professor Jim Crotty* Some Reflections on Jim Crotty: His Life and Contributions to Economics," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 55(4), pages 670-678, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:55:y:2023:i:4:p:670-678
    DOI: 10.1177/04866134231199135
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    Keywords

    Jim Crotty; class struggle; macro-micro dialectic;
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    JEL classification:

    • B4 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology
    • B5 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches

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