This collection, featuring chapters from such leading economic thinkers as Sheila Dow, Tony Lawson and John Davis, is a well-written comprehensive analysis of Keynes' philosophy and as such will be welcomed by both the economics and philosophy community.
By investigating the rise and fall of post-war Keynesianism and focusing on the experience of the United States, the author adopts an interdisciplinary approach to show that economics is rooted in the flesh and blood history of social conflict.
Annual Supplement to Volume 27. History of Political Economy.Our intention in selecting, and in some cases requesting, the papers collected here was to display and further promote one noteworthy aspect of the Keynes literature--an aspect that we believe holds considerable importance for the history of economics in general: namely, its emerging cross-disciplinary nature.
This book is in the tradition of non-market-clearing approaches to macrodynamic economics. It shows for the first time that macrodynamics can be developed and investigated in a systematic fashion, leading to coherent models of fluctuation growth. This differs considerably from the microfounded full equilibrium approaches that are currently fashionable. Using sophisticated mathematical tools, it investigates complex macrodynamic feedback mechanisms in a systematic way, showing how macrodynamics can be developed in a hierarchical way from economically simple structures to more advanced ones.
Only a person of Keynes's unique character could have achieved what he did. After teaching neoclassical economics for two decades, he developed an extraordinary theory--extraordinary in that it built upon the theoretical complex he intended to overthrow and extraordinary in that it provided the best guidance for defeating the Depression of the 1930s and managing an economy thereafter. This biography shows how Keynes's personality left its stamp on his ideas, the connections between his all-too-human quirks and his theorizing, between his dominating personality and his success as a policymaker. Although sympathetic to the man, his aims, and his accomplishments, this is the first critical biography of John Maynard Keynes.