Athanasios Asimakopulos

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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, 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. This book makes Keynes's writing on his General Theory accessible to any student by presenting this theory in a careful, consistent manner that is faithful to the original.

Biography

Asimakopulos was born in Montreal in 1930. He was educated at McGill University earning a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1953, and in Cambridge obtaining his Ph.D. in 1959. Athanasios Asimakopulos was a Lecturer in Economics and Political Science from 1956 to 1957 at McGill. From 1957 to 1959 he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Royal Military College. In 1959 he returned to McGill and became an assistant professor. Promoted to the position of associate professor in 1963, he became a full professor in 1966. In 1988 he was appointed "William Dow Professor of Political Economy". He served as Chairman of the Department of Economics from 1974 to 1978. He wrote extensively on the work of such economic theorists as J.M. Keynes, Joan Robinson, and Michal Kalecki. He was active in many professional associations and organizations. He held numerous fellowships and was a Visiting Professor and a Fellow at universities in the United States, England and Australia. From 1976 to 1990 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Athnasios Asimakopulos died in 1990.

Contributions to Economic Theory

"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