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ISSN 0309-166X (PRINT) Cambridge Journal of Economics ISSN 1464-3545 (ONLINE) Volume 38 Number 6 November 2014 Cambridge Journal of Economics Introduction S. Blankenburg The future of capitalism: a consideration of alternatives Cambridge Wendy Harcourt Towards a political economy of the theory of economic policy K. Vela Velupillai Journal of Economic history and economic theory: the staples approach to economic development Alexander Dow and Sheila Dow A neo-Kaleckian–Goodwin model of capitalist economic growth: monopoly Economics power, managerial pay and labour market conflict Thomas I. Palley A new theoretical analysis of deindustrialisation Fiona Tregenna Triggers of change: structural trajectories and production dynamics Volume 38 Number 6 November 2014 Antonio Andreoni and Roberto Scazzieri Special Issue The crisis of intellectual monopoly capitalism Ugo Pagano Contemporary capitalism and progressive political economics: Back to which Bretton Woods? Liquidity and clearing as alternative principles for reforming international money Contributions to heterodox debates about economic Massimo Amato and Luca Fantacci 2014 38 Number 6 November Volume A bright future can be ours! Macroeconomic policy for non-eurozone method, analysis and policy Western countries J. W. Nevile and Peter Kriesler Identity economics meets financialisation: gender, race and occupational stratification in the US labour market Philip Arestis, Aurelie Charles and Giuseppe Fontana Veblen Contra Clark and Fisher: Veblen-Robinson-Harcourt lineages in capital controversies and beyond Avi J. Cohen The scholar as reader: the last 50 years of economic theory seen through G.C. 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