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John Maynard Keynes of Bloomsbury: Four Short Talks
Goodwin, Craufurd; Hoover, Kevin D.; Weintraub, E. Roy; … - Duke University, Department of Economics - 2010
Four talks on Keynes in relation to the Bloomsbury Group: I. Maynard Keynes of Bloomsbury (Craufurd Goodwin); II. Keynes as Policy Advisor (E. Roy Weintraub); III. Keynes and Economics (Kevin D. Hoover); IV. Keynes and Hayek (Bruce Caldwell). The talks were delivered as part of roundtable...
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How Keynesian Economics Came to China
Trescott, Paul B. - In: History of Political Economy 44 (2012) 2, pp. 341-364
The central ideas of Keynes's General Theory were introduced into China soon after its publication in 1936. Yao Qingsan … translation of the General Theory in the 1940s, but it was not published until 1957. At Harvard, Keynes's ideas were applied in …
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Been there done that: the political economy of Déjà Vu
Boettke, Peter; Smith, Daniel; Snow, Nicholas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In the midst of the current financial crisis the economics profession has seen a monumental resurrection of Keynesian ideas. The debate, which Keynes started back in the 1930s, is being picked up again, not where it left off, but in exactly the same place it started. While Keynesian theories...
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF ECONOMICS:Artful Approaches to the Dismal Science (2nd Edition)
Canterbery, E Ray - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Blending past and present, this brief history of economics is the perfect book for introducing students to the field. A Brief History of Economics illustrates how the ideas of the great economists not only influenced societies but were themselves shaped by their cultural milieu. Understanding...
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Teaching economics differently by comparing contesting theories
Resnick, Stephen; Wolff, Richard D. - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 1, pp. 57-68
Teaching economics differently summarises how we have taught introductory micro and macroeconomics and what we have learned from that teaching experience over the last 40 years. We explain why teaching both economic theories that celebrate and those that criticise capitalism – together in one...
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Economics, Democracy, and the Distribution of Capital Ownership
Ashford, Robert - In: Forum for Social Economics 40 (2011) 3, pp. 361-370
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From A Treatise on Money to the General Theory: John Maynard Keynes' Departure from the Doctrine of Forced Saving
Wong, Ho-Po Crystal - Center for the History of Political Economy
-1936 from when he worked on A Treatise on Money to the completion of his General Theory. The forced saving notion has been … demand in the General Theory and its process. I provide evidence suggesting that the development of the General Theory is … Fundamental Equations and subsequent theory of effective demand in the explanation of the problem of unemployment. …
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Frank Ramsey
Duarte, Pedro Garcia - Departamento de Economia, Faculdade de Economia, … - 2014
Frank P. Ramsey (b. 1903 – d. 1930) was a Cambridge mathematician who interacted closely to leading economists of his time such as Arthur Cecil Pigou, John Maynard Keynes and Roy Harrod. In the 1920s he was considered by many as a brilliant student who was clearly integrated to the elite group...
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Lecciones olvidadas de tres economistas difuntos
Barbé, Lluís - In: Cuadernos de Economía - Spanish Journal of Economics … 36 (2013) 100, pp. 1-4
En este trabajo el autor se lamenta de la importancia cada vez menor que se otorga a la historia del pensamiento económico en la comunidad académica mundial, defiende que esta recesión está dando lugar a visiones unidimensionales de la obra de los principales autores en economía y afirma...
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Keynes, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company. A personal and professional relationship.
Basberg, Bjørn L. - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2015
John Maynard Keynes’ activities on the stock market are well known. One company in which he bought stocks was the Hector Whaling Company Ltd., London – a comparatively small and little known company founded in 1928. The director of this company was Rupert Trouton. He had worked with Keynes...
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