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The manner in which R. Kahn presented his mathematical results on the multiplier in the Economic Journal of June, 1931, is identical to the style of presenting mathematical results used by Keynes to present his mathematical analysis starting with the A Treatise on Probability in 1921. Keynes's...
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It is ‘…quite puzzling,indeed'(Skidelsky,1992p.71) how a paper as extremely poor and deficient as R. B. Braithwaite's editorial foreword could have been selected to appear at the beginning of the 1973 Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Volume 8, version of the A Treatise on...
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The editors of the Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes made an unfortunate blunder when they assigned to Richard Braithwaite the task of writing an editorial foreword to Volume 8, A Treatise on Probability, of the Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Braithwaite never read the A...
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impossible to analyze in (r,Y) space except with an IS-LM model.The economics profession has incorporated these myths into the … division undergraduates in all economics courses, even though Smith himself completely rejected any such theory in both the …
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” centered around the economics and philosophy departments at Cambridge University, England in the last quarter of the 20th …
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J M Keynes's supposed attack on mathematical economics is a myth created by Joan Robinson and her fellow Pseudo … economics. Of course, he does attack “pseudo mathematics” and “mathematical” economics. What Keynes was attacking was the formal …
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Probability, the General Theory,and the 1937 Quarterly Journal of Economics, reveal that Keynes’s discussions about uncertainty in … the General Theory, and the 1937 Quarterly Journal of Economics article are simply small ,minor footnotes to the A … mention or make any reference to the 1937 Quarterly Journal of Economics article, which Joan Robinson, G L S Shackle, Paul …
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This paper discusses the following two hypotheses. The first one is based on the epistemological proposal which we have named the principle of discontinuity. It asserts that certain developments in the history of economic thought involve theoretical breaks which can only be fully explained by...
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In 1987, Greenwald and Stiglitz accused Keynes's summary of the "General Theory" in chapter 18 of relying upon “neoclassical and Marshallian tools.” A number of contributions have on the contrary emphasized the methodological importance of this chapter, which this paper revisits in the light...
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