This chapter examines the development of Keynes's monetary thought in the context of Britain's return to the gold standard (opposed by Keynes) in 1925 and his unsuccessful attempt to develop a theory of macroeconomic fluctuations in his Treatise on Money. Keynes, who had predicted that rejoining...

R. G. Hawtrey, like J. M. Keynes, was a Cambridge graduate in mathematics, an Apostle, influenced by the Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore, and connected to the Bloomsbury Group. Though eventually overshadowed by Keynes, Hawtrey, after publishing Currency and Credit in 1919, was in the front...

While Hayek's Prices and Production established his reputation as a business-cycle theorist, Sraffa's 1932 review of the book helped turn professional opinion against him. A key criticism of Sraffa was that Hayek's conception of a natural rate of interest, reflecting only real relationships, was...

R. G. Hawtrey, like his younger contemporary J. M. Keynes, was a Cambridge graduate in mathematics, an Apostle, deeply influenced by the Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore, attached, if only peripherally, to the Bloomsbury group, and largely an autodidact in economics. Both entered the British...

This paper discusses the development of Keynes's ideas about monetary theory in the context of the consequences of Britain's return to the gold standard (opposed by Keynes) in 1925 and his initial unsuccessful attempt to develop a comprehensive theory of macroeconomic fluctuations in his...