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chapter 1 Classical economics and modern theory: an introduction / HEINZ D. KURZ -- part Part I Classical theory and its interpretations -- chapter 2 Understanding classical economics: a reply to Mark Blaug / HEINZ D. KURZ -- chapter 3 Classical roots of input output analysis: a short account of its long prehistory / HEINZ D. KURZ -- chapter 4 Friedrich Benedikt Wilhelm Hermann on capital and profits / HEINZ D. KURZ -- chapter 5 Burgstaller on classical and neoclassical theory / GIUSEPPE FRENI -- part Part II Growth theory and the classical tradition -- chapter 6 Theories of endogenous growth in historical perspective / HEINZ D. KURZ -- chapter 7 What could the new growth theory teach Smith or Ricardo? / HEINZ D. KURZ -- chapter Appendix / KENNETH J. ARROW -- chapter 8 A linear multisector model of endogenous growth and the problem of capital / NERI SALVADORI -- chapter 9 A linear multisector model of endogenous growth: a post-script / GIUSEPPE FRENI -- part PART III On Sraffa's contribution -- chapter 10 Sraffa and the mathematicians: Frank Ramsey and Alister Watson / HEINZ D. KURZ -- chapter 11 Sraffa and von Neumann / HEINZ D. KURZ -- chapter 12 Production theory: an introduction / HEINZ D. KURZ -- part Part IV Exhaustible resources and the long-period method -- chapter 13 Classical economics and the problem of exhaustible resources -- chapter 14 Economic dynamics in a simple model with exhaustible resources and a given real wage rate / HEINZ D. KURZ -- part Part V Criticism of neoclassical theory -- chapter 15 Reverse capital deepening and the num raire: a note -- chapter 16 Reswitching simplifying a famous example / HEINZ D. KURZ -- chapter 17 Franklin Fisher on aggregation / MARCO LIPPI -- chapter 18 Wicksell and the problem of the missing equation / HEINZ D. KURZ.