Keynes provided a technical analysis on pages 179-181 of the General Theory that identified two separate rates of interest, r1 and r2, each different rate of interest associated with a different Demand for Investment and Supply of Savings Intersection. Each combination would provide a different,...

In his August 30th, 1935 letter to Keynes, Harrod not once, but twice, conceded that Keynes had radically reconstituted the classical and neoclassical theory of the rate of interest by pointing out that the standard theory was one equation short. However, by adding the missing Liquidity...

Extreme mathematical illiteracy played a basic, fundamental role in the assessments made by Joan Robinson, Ralph Hawtrey and Dennis Robertson of Keynes's Theory of Liquidity Preference, which Harrod described in an August 30 1935, letter to Keynes as a major reconstruction of interest rate...

Keynes‘s first paragraph in his letter of the 9th of November,1936, is the following two lines: “I beg you not to publish. For your argument as it stands is most certainly nonsense.”Anyone who reads this correspondence will soon realize that it was simply impossible for Joan Robinson to...