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Right-wing critics of Keynes have often suggested that he was a socialist. His policy proposals were very often … described as a slippery slope that would lead society into a totalitarian nightmare. Alternatively, from the left, Keynes was … exploitative system. The scholarship on Keynes also remained divided. However, in the last few decades a more robust position in …
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on Keynes's place in its history, suggesting that these stem from a particular and debatable understanding of how the … subdiscipline has evolved. It considers some implications for today's awkward economic facts of aspects of Keynes' General Theory … that the questions about co-ordination that Keynes addressed, not to mention some of his answers, are well worth revisiting …
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Keynes' General Theory was a massive step forward relative to classical economics, but it was also a step backward in … its denial of the conflictual nature of capitalism. There is need to understand Keynes' technical contributions regarding …. Keynes made a fundamental contribution elucidating the mechanism of effective demand, and he also has claim to be the …
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Right-wing critics of Keynes have often suggested that he was a socialist. His policy proposals were very often … described as a slippery slope that would lead society into a totalitarian nightmare. Alternatively, from the left, Keynes was … exploitative system. The scholarship on Keynes also remained divided. However, in the last few decades a more robust position in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529493
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 discussion on John Maynard Keynes of Bloomsbury, the inaugural event …
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The transcript of a panel discussion marking the fiftieth anniversary of John Muth's "Rational Expectations and the Theory of Price Movements" (Econometrica 1961). The panel consists of Michael Lovell, Robert Lucas, Dale Mortensen, Robert Shiller, and Neil Wallace. The discussion is moderated by...
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After the publication of Keynes' "General Theory," economics was frequently described as schizophrenia: (neo …-) classical at the micro-level, but Keynesian at the macro-level. In actuality, Keynes' revolution was, to a substantial part … or reclassified in the neoclassical synthesis. Keynes' General Theory is truly general. It includes the full …
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This paper addresses various attempts by so-called new Keynesians, writing mainly in the 1980s and 1990s, to strengthen the analytical basis, in particular the microeconomic foundations, of these assertions. What, exactly, have then the new Keynesians accomplished, and how should their...
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Solow has repeatedly called for the development of models that combine equilibrium and out-of equilibrium outcomes or what he called a macro-economics of the medium-run. This paper recounts the history of Solow's different attempts to address this issue. It starts in early 1950s when Solow...
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Chapters 8, 9 and 10 set out Keynes' theory of consumer behavior. Chapter 8 is entitled The Propensity to Consume: I … Propensity to Consume and the Multiplier. Contrary to the widely held belief, Keynes saw the consumer as an intertemporally …
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