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This paper examines the unemployment controversy between J. M. Keynes and A. C. Pigou, mainly from the latter …
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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 …
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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
Colonial Americans complained that gold and silver coins (specie) were chronically scarce. These coins could be acquired only through importation. Given unrestricted trade in specie, market arbitrage should have eliminated chronic scarcity. A model of efficient barter and local inside money is...
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In Chapter 3 of the General Theory, Keynes sketches out what he calls the essence of the General Theory of Employment …
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In Chapter 4 of the General Theory, Keynes discusses the units of measurement he will be using in the remainder of the …
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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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This paper puts John Maynard Keynes’ "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" into its historical context … background to the General Theory, looks at the influence of other economists of the period on the evolution of Keynes’ thought … were debating issues very similar to the ones with which Keynes was wrestling. …
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