Over the course of their professional lives, Henry E. Kyburg, Isaac Levi, and Jochen Runde have maintained the claim that J M Keynes’s contributions to probability and decision theory were of a comparative, qualitative nature only. They maintained that J M Keynes had some interesting, but...

Orthodox and heterodox theories of financial crises are hereby compared from a theoretical viewpoint, with emphasis on their genesis. The former view (represented by the fourthgeneration models of Paul Krugman) reflects the neoclassical vision whereby turbulence is an exception; the latter...

A year after I started this project under the auspices of the Flynn Grant from Georgetown University's Center for German and European Studies it is finally finished, and only then because of the invaluable assistance of numerous kind individuals. In Cologne, Germany, the Institut für...

Was the Keynesian message alive during the second half of the XXth Century, or was it betrayed by his followers? This article in the fields of the history of economic thought and methodology contrasts the Scientific Research Programmes (SRPs), a Lakatosian concept, of Keynes in The General...

Schumpeter sketched a research program to explain the emergence of business cycles from perennial microeconomic flux. Economists however believe Schumpeterian micro processes are insufficient to generate macro dynamics, and therefore Schumpeterian themes must be appended with Keynesian features...

Both J M Keynes and Adam Smith used very similar ethical, epistemological, philosophical, and economic approaches in their analysis of the conditions that are necessary to maintain a stable, full employment economic system over time. They also agreed upon the nature of the fundamental problem...

Economic development disparities are caused mainly by unjustified biased policies and not in actual fact biased policies. Balanced policies are often recommended for balanced growth of all economic sectors. However, through sector linkages, and due to lack of funding in many developing nations,...

The paper investigates Champernowne's 1936 attempt to sort out the debate between Pigou (1933) and Keynes (1936) about employment determination. Champernowne agreed with Keynes that workers can only bargain for a money-wage, but argued that, to the extent that workers' (adaptive) price...

In diesen Tagen jährt sich der Tod von John Maynard Keynes zum 75. Mal. Er war einer der bedeutendsten Ökonomen des 20. Jahrhunderts, wenn nicht gar der bedeutendste überhaupt. Dabei waren seine Lehren und seine Ratschläge schon zu seinen Lebzeiten teilweise heftigst umstritten. Das galt...