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...

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, based on the behavioral micro-foundations of the world we...

The theory and practice of stabilization policy has taken many turns as it evolved over the past century, oscillating between high hopes and deep skepticism regarding the capacity - and desirability - of governments taking responsibility for macroeconomic stability. This paper reviews the...

In countries where tools of economic control are immature and disabled due to totalitarian systems, macroeconomic analyses for aggregate quantities and relationships, such as total consumption, investment, and government expenditures represents a difficult task. The practice of aggregation...

F. Modigliani presented a special case of Keynes's General Theory result in 1944 in his “Liquidity Preference and the Theory of Interest and Money”. Modigliani sought to provide the IS-LM model of Hicks's 1937 Econometrica interpretation of Keynes's chapter 15 IS-LM model with microeconomic...

J M Keynes engaged in correspondence over the IS-LM model contained in chapter 15 of the General Theory with R. Harrod and J Hicks in 1937. Keynes had no major objections. How could he? How could Keynes object to interpretations concerning his own model of IS LM in the General Theory, as laid...