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 …

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 …