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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Keynesian Revolution and its Economic
Book SynopsisThe Keynesian Revolution and its Economic Consequences is a study of John Maynard Keynes as a publicist, expert and theorist and of the economic doctrines associated with his name. It examines the Keynesian revolution in economic theory and policy and shows how Keynesianism as a school of thought departed from the substance of Keynes's own thinking and policy prescription.Peter Clarke places the 'historical' Keynes in the context of his own times and examines the subsequent institutionalization of Keynes. The author presents an historical account of Keynes's own thinking and influences, and offers a reassessment and a non-technical explanation of Keynesian policies, notably budget deficits. The author explores Keynes's major works and ideas within a political context, concluding that greater emphasis should be placed on his ideas about uncertainty and confidence, his thoughts on the complementary roles of public opinion and expertise, his commitment to the politics of persuasion and his challenge to entrenched vested interests. The Keynesian Revolution and its Economic Consequences will be of interest to historians and scholars of economic thought and economic policy as well as economic historians.Trade Review'During the last two decades, as an increasing number of scholars from other disciplines have begun to analyze Maynard Keynes and his work,Peter Clarke has distinguished himself as one of the best writers in the field, from any discipline. . . . This handsome volume puts the work at your fingertips. It is a rare collection that you will enjoy for the pleasure of the writing as well as for the pleasure of the intellectual discovery.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. The Historical Keynes and the History of Keynesianism 2. J.M. Keynes, 1883–1946: ‘The best of both worlds’ 3. The Politics of Keynesian Economics, 1924–31 4. Keynes’s General Theory: A Problem for Historians 5. Hobson and Keynes as Economic Heretics 6. Keynes in History 7. The Treasury’s Analytical Model of the British Economy Between the Wars 8. The Twentieth-Century Revolution in Government: the Case of the British Treasury 9. Keynes, Buchanan and the Balanced Budget Doctrine 10. The Keynesian Consensus and its Enemies: the Argument Over Macroeconomic Policy in Britain since the Second World War
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iUniverse The Economic Consequences of Mr Keynes How the Second Industrial Revolution Passed Great Britain By
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Harvard University Press Capitalist Revolutionary John Maynard Keynes
Book SynopsisThe 2008 recession restored Keynes to prominence. This account elaborates the misinformation that led to his repeated resurrection and interment since his death in 1946. Keynes was more open-minded about capitalism than is commonly believed, and his nuanced views offer an alternative to the polarized rhetoric evoked by the word capitalism today.Trade ReviewThis very readable book makes the actual historical Keynes and his ideas accessible to modern readers, whose views are so often formed by misleading myths about him, his work, and its significance. -- David Laidler, University of Western OntarioThe authors' interpretation of Keynes is broadly convincing, not least in challenging the way that his own arguments have been misleadingly stereotyped by subsequent economists. It succeeds in shifting our perspectives on the nature of Keynes's achievement. It recognizes his intellectual greatness while acknowledging the flaws and lacunae in his various arguments. And it brings out his own reluctance to police a new 'Keynesian orthodoxy' and his tolerance of various approaches. -- Peter Clarke, University of CambridgeAn excellent introduction to the thought of John Maynard Keynes. Lucid and nontechnical, it explains how, because Keynes was such a different kind of economist--eclectic, practical rather than formalistic, worldly, intuitive--from the formalistic academic economists of the next generation, who came to dominate the economics profession, he was misunderstood by his successors. They created and later discredited 'Keynesianism'--a distorted version of Keynes's thought. Backhouse and Bateman explain that to cope with our current economic problems, we need to restore Keynes's original vision. -- Richard A. Posner, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit[A] timely and provocative reappraisal. -- John Cassidy * New Yorker *Backhouse and Bateman provide a useful context for the many policymakers, journalists, economists, and historians who have recently rediscovered, rehabilitated, or revived Keynes's thought. The duo portray Keynes as a nontrivial personality who was in equal measure economist and moral philosopher, revolutionary and conservative. The brief volume flows with merciful grace through the particulars of Keynesian economic thought, interweaving historical, biographical, and technical details. The Keynes who emerges is not a one-dimensional deficit-spending proponent but a complex philosopher-economist who earnestly calls for perpetual revolution of capitalism to preserve this imperfect but best-available economic system. -- Jekabs Bikis * Library Journal *Elegantly written and extremely thoughtful...This is not a technical economic tract; this is a book for someone who wants to understand how Keynes' ideas and habits of thought fit together (it includes a useful bibliographic essay to the Keynes industry at the end). While it deals with the broad outline of Keynes' economic ideas, particularly in the '30s when he published his masterpiece, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, it also tackles the philosophical contexts that shaped his thinking and what the authors call "Keynes' ambiguous revolution," that is, how those ideas were revised and reshaped after World War II into a kind of orthodoxy, then rejected in the stagflation '70s, then embraced, debated and reinterpreted up to our own deeply confusing era. This is extremely useful, particularly in an age where we are once again hearing from movements like Occupy Wall Street that capitalism needs to be renovated or eliminated, or when, in a time of often-vicious partisanship, Keynes and Keynesianism is tossed around as a term of blackest opprobrium or unassailable wisdom...There's a lot packed in this small volume. Keynes' ambition, his worldly views and his diagnostic tendencies all lie behind the book's seemingly contradictory title: Capitalist Revolutionary...Writing about someone like Keynes who personally wrote so much, so well, must be a daunting task. Backhouse and Bateman more than keep up, not by competing with Keynes, but by letting him speak, in all his many voices. Their Keynes is not a secret socialist, or closet communist; not an apostate from classical economics; not some avatar of permissiveness and inflation. As they make clear in their discussion of Keynesianism after Keynes, his relationship with his own legacy is complex and ambiguous. He was not a man to be pinned down because he recognized that the world, which includes matters of economics as well as so much more, is neither simple, straightforward nor apprehensible by time-bound men armed with doctrines and dogmas. That alone is a lesson well worth revisiting regularly. -- Robert Teitelman * The Deal *From Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, the great economists of the past saw economics as a historical, philosophical and, above all, moral discipline...The first step to good capitalism, therefore, is to re-moralize economics. In their tantalizingly brief but thought-provoking study of Keynes, Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman have started to do just that. Keynes, they show, was much more than an astonishingly innovative economic theorist and accomplished man of affairs. He was also a moral philosopher...He abhorred the utilitarian would world view that lay at the heart of classical economic theory. The fundamental utilitarian dogma--that markets are driven by rational, individual utility maximizers--seemed to him morally repulsive as well as factually incorrect. He thought that capitalism was the least bad economic system available but he also thought it was morally defective. -- David Marquand * New Statesman *
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Keynesian Revolution, Then and Now: The
Book SynopsisRobert Eisner has made a seminal contribution to the development of macroeconomic analysis in the latter half of the twentieth century. This carefully edited selection of his essays traces the development of economic thought in the wake of the Keynesian revolution and offers a critique of the neoclassical contribution to economic analysis and major macroeconomic policy issues.Professor Eisner is fundamentally concerned with the determinants of employment and growth in a market economy. In this book, he provides a rigorous analysis of the permanent income hypothesis, the multiplier, interest rates, the liquidity trap, consumption and saving, depreciation, unemployment and growth models. He goes on to examine fiscal and monetary policy and the measurement and effects of budget deficits over the post-war period, challenging the view that budget deficits should necessarily be avoided. Professor Eisner also offers new measures of saving, investment and national income and product, which provide new insights into the economic factors affecting current welfare and future growth. Finally, he discusses the importance of full employment and criticises the idea that there is a natural rate of unemployment.Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Keynesian Revolution – Consumption, Interest Rates and Growth Part II: Fiscal and Monetary Policy and Budget Deficits Part III: Budget Deficits and Saving Part IV: Natural Rate of Unemployment and NAIRU Appendix
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Cambridge University Press Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reading John Maynard Keynes
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on understanding the thinking of one of the greatest economists of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes (JMK), stressing the evolution of his thinking from adherence to the classic Quantity Theory of Money to the development of his own novel theories of unemployment, stagnation and instability in modern capitalism and the need to have active policies to combat these malaises.The author dissects Keynes's three main analytical works that shaped his thinking and policy recommendations: A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923); A Treatise on Money (1930); and The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). Thia book undertakes a direct analysis of the texts of each of these three books themselves, rather than drawing on secondary literature studying what Keynes wanted to say according to other authors sympathetic or unsympathetic with Keynes's ideas. It is an ideal text for a reader who wants to know in clear terms the thou
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Cambridge University Press Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd John Maynard Keynes
Book SynopsisJohn Maynard Keynes is the 20th century’s greatest economist. He sparked an intellectual revolution that transformed economic theory and policymaking. This book, written in plain English with minimal mathematics, is a concise and probing account of his major ideas. Keynes, argues Mark Hayes, showed that economics is a science of thinking in terms of models, in which progress depends on recognising when established models have become obsolete and new ones are required. Hayes outlines how Keynes did this, tracing his progression from the ‘Classical’ model that he inherited through to his masterpiece, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, and beyond. The intellectual narrative is placed in its historical context, from the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 to Bretton Woods. The final chapters consider the impact of Keynes’s legacy, including his relevance to reform of the Euro. This accomplished study is not only a comprehensive introduction for students and general readers, but also a crystal-clear demonstration of how Keynes’ thought is vital to understanding why contemporary economics needs to discard its old models and embrace profound change.Trade Review"Hayes’s book deserves wide readership"Journal of EconomicsTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface How To Read This Book Glossary 1. Why Study Keynes? 2. The Classical Theory of Employment, Interest and Money 3. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money 4. The Great Confusion 5. The Long Struggle to Escape 6. From Versailles to Bretton Woods 7. The Keynesian Era 8. Keynes for Today Further Reading Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd John Maynard Keynes
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1982. This collection is part of the Routledge Critical Assessments of Leading Economists series. John Maynard Keynes: Critical Assessments presents a detailed overview of the analytic writings on John Maynard Keynes from contemporary sources through to the present day. All aspects of Keynes' writings are considered from both their theoretical and practical applications. The volumes are arranged thematically under the following headings: 1. The Life of John Maynard Keynes and Perspectives on his Thought 2. Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money 3. Keynesian Economic Analysis (Volumes III & IV).
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe John Maynard Keynes
Book SynopsisâœToday, Mr. Minsky's view [of economics] is more relevant than ever.â- The New York TimesâœIndeed, the Minsky moment has become a fashionable catch phrase on Wall Street.â-The Wall Street JournalJohn Maynard Keynes offers a timely reconsideration of the work of the revered economics icon. Hyman Minsky argues that what most economists consider Keynesian economics is at odds with the major points of Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Keynes and Minsky refuse to ignore pervasive uncertainty. Once uncertainty is given center stage, recurring episodes of financial system crises are all but inescapable. As Robert Barbera notes in a new preface, âœBenign economic circumstancesâinvite increasingly aggressive financial market wagers. Innovation in finance is a signature development in a capitalist economy. Once leveraged wagers are in place, small disappointments can have exaggerated consequences.â Thus for Minsky
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WW Norton & Co Keynes Hayek
Book Synopsis“I defy anybody—Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted—to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.”—John Cassidy, The New YorkerTrade Review"As we face off against the Great Recession, the only book you need to understand the debate raging in the streets today: economic freedom versus government intervention. An essential primer on the two men who shaped modern finance." "I heartily recommend Nicholas Wapshott's new book, Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics... Many books have been written about Keynes, but nobody else has told the story properly of his relationship with Hayek. Nick has filled the gap in splendid fashion, and I defy anybody-Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted-to read his work and not learn something new." -- John Cassidy "Nicholas Wapshott's new book, Keynes Hayek, does an excellent job of setting out the broader history behind this revival of the old debates. Wapshott brings the personalities to life, provides more useful information on the debates than any other source, and miraculously manages to write for both the lay reader and the expert at the same time. Virtually every page is gripping, and yet even the professional economist will glean some insight..." -- Tyler Cowen "Mr. Wapshott has written an important book. It is compelling not only as a history of two distinctive thinkers and their influence, but also as a narrative of political decision-making and its underlying priorities. Underlying Mr. Wapshott's analysis are vital questions for this moment in American history: What kind of society do we want? And what do we owe to our fellow citizens and our collective future?" -- Nancy F. Koehn "Nicholas Wapshott's Keynes Hayek is a smart and absorbing account of one of the most fateful encounters in modern history, remarkably rendered as a taut intellectual drama. Wapshott brilliantly brings to life the human history of ideas that continue to mold our world." -- Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy "Nicholas Wapshott brings the Keynes-Hayek fight of the twentieth century back to life, making the clash both entertaining and highly relevant for understanding economic crises of the twenty-first century." -- John B. Taylor, Stanford University, Getting Off Track "In the fluency of his writing and his ability to make complex financial questions easily comprehensible, Nicholas Wapshott has done economics itself a great service, by opening the subject up to the general reader, as seen through the prism of one of the most important intellectual gladiatorial contests of modern times." -- Andrew Roberts, The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
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Cambridge University Press The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes Volume 9
Book SynopsisThese essays represent some of Keynes's finest writing on economic policy and politics.Table of ContentsPart I. The Treaty of Peace: 1. Paris (1919); 2. The Capacity of Germany to Pay Reparations (1919); 3. Proposals for the Reconstruction of Europe (1919); 4. The Change of Opinion (1921); 5. War Debts and the United States (1921, 1925, 1928); Part II. Inflation and Deflation: 6. Inflation (1919); 7. Social Consequences of Changes in the Value of Money (1923); 8. The French Franc (1926, 1928); 9. Can Lloyd George Do It? (1929); 10. The Great Slump of 1930 (December 1930); 11. Economy (1931); 12. The Consequences to the Banks of the Collapse of Money Values (August 1931); Part III. The Return to the Gold Standard: 13. Auri Sacra Fames (1930); 14. Alternative Aims in Monetary Policy (1923); 15. Positive Suggestions for the Future Regulation of Money (1923); 16. The Speeches of the Bank Chairmen (1924, 1925, 1927); 17. The Economic Consequences of Mr Churchill (1925); 18. Mitigation by Tariff (1931); 19. The End of the Gold Standard (27 September 1931); Part IV. Politics: 20. A Short View of Russia (1925); 21. The End of Laissez-Faire (1926); 22. Am I a Liberal? (1925); 23. Liberalism and Labour (1926); Part V. The Future: 24. Clissold (1927); 25. Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930); Part VI. Later Essays: 26. Means to Prosperity (1933); 27. How to Pay for the War (1940).
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Keynesianism and the Keynesian Revolution in
Book SynopsisThis collection is a tribute to a most faithful, true Keynesian, who read, thought, dreamt and promoted Keynes: Lorie Tarshis (1911-1993). This volume is focused on the important role of Lorie Tarshis's brand of Keynesianism on the effect of the Keynesian revolution on economic thought in America. Tarshis was among the first to form part of Keynes's select 'circus', not only witnessing, but actually participating in the making of The General Theory. This memorial includes new reflections on the impact of Keynesianism in the making by many of the eminent early generations of American post-war economists, Galbraith, Goodwin, Kindleberger, Samuelson, Salant, Tobin and Perlman. While their contributions shed more light on how the participants in the process, Tarshis included, effected early Keynesianism, the volume also contains contributions by those such as Moggridge and McQueen who reflect on aspects of the process from greater distance. Holzman and Reder recount Lorie Tarshis's subtle contribution and its direct impact and reverberations are reflected upon in the balance of the chapters by Colander, Dimand, Dow, Grimard, McCann and Perlman, and Parker.This book will be of great interest to scholars interested in the history of economic thought and Keynesian economics.Trade Review'Keynesianism and the Keynesian Revolution in America makes fascinating reading for those interested in the development of economics in the 1950s.' -- Journal of Economic Perspectives '. . . the volume's contents are fitting tributes to a wonderful person.'– G.C. Harcourt, History of Economics ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: Introductory Comments 1. Lorie Tarshis: a brief memoir 2. How Keynes came to America 3. The diffusion of the Keynesian revolution 4. Harvard’s Fiscal Policy Seminar Part II: Introductory Extracts 5. Lorie Tarshis: an early Keynesian herald in America 6. Requiem for the classic Tarshis textbook that first brought Keynes to introductory economics 7. Political influence on the textbook Keynesian revolution 8. Lorie Tarshis, Left Wing Keynesian Part III: Introductory Extracts 9. Another Canadian Keynesian 10. Keynes, Tarshis, real and money wages, and employment 11. Keynesian monetary theory and the debt crisis 12. A case against muddling through Part IV: Introductory Comments 13. Caveat emptor, investor, depositor 14. On Keynes and Ramsey on probability 15. Keynesian economics and the meaning of uncertainty Bibliography
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WWW.Therichestmaninbabylon.Org A Tract on Monetary Reform
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Cambridge University Press The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes Volume 4
Book SynopsisA clear exposition of Keynes's ideas about the currencies of Europe and their adjustment to the post-war world.Table of Contents1. The consequences to society of changes in the value of money; 2. Public finance and changes in the value of money; 3. The theory of money and the exchanges; 4. Alternative aims in monetary policy; 5. Positive suggestions for the future regulation of money.
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Cambridge University Press The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes Volume 11
Book SynopsisKeynes's academic articles and reviews on a number of subjects, including India, statistics, World War I and international economics.Table of Contents1. India; 2. Index numbers; 3. Statistics; 4. The First World War and reconstruction; 5. Money; 6. International economics; 7. Miscellaneous reviews.
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Cambridge University Press Essays on John Maynard Keynes
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Cambridge University Press The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes
Book SynopsisThe most provocative book written by any economist of Keynes's generation, propounding a fundamentally new approach that revolutionised economics.Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. The general theory; 2. The postulates of the classical economics; 3. The principle of effective demand; Part II. Definitions and Ideas: 4. The choice of units; 5. Expectation as determining output and employment; 6. The definition of income, saving and investment; 7. The meaning of saving and investment further considered; Part III. The Propensity to Consume: 8. The propensity to consume - i. The objective factors; 9. The propensity to consume - ii. The subjective factors; 10. The marginal propensity to consume and the multiplier; Part IV. The Inducement to Invest: 11. The marginal efficiency of capital; 12. The state of long-term expectation; 13. The general theory of the rate of interest; 14. The classical theory of the rate of interest; 15. The psychological and business incentives to liquidity; 16. Sundry observations on the nature of capital; 17. The essential properties of interest and money; 18. The general theory of employment re-stated; Part V. Money-wages and Prices: 19. Changes in money-wages; 20. The employment function; 21. The theory of prices; Part VI. Short Notes Suggested by the General Theory: 22. Notes on the trade cycle; 23. Notes on mercantilism, the usury laws, stamped money and theories of under-consumption; 24. Concluding notes on the social philosophy towards which the general theory might lead.
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Harvard University Press Raising Keynes
Book SynopsisKeynes’s General Theory has been misunderstood as relying on frictions to justify the need for the visible hand of government to complement the invisible hand of the market. Fleshing out the GT with tools not available to Keynes, Marglin exposes the fundamental failure of markets to self-regulate and draws lessons for fiscal and monetary policies.Trade ReviewMarglin has taken 80 years of neoclassical distortions of Keynes, presented them with great clarity in their own language, and then pounded them into dust, pushing the detritus back into the faces of the high priests of the neoclassical synthesis, the New Keynesians, and the New Classical Economists. Raising Keynes issues a challenge that they would be cowardly to refuse—which is not to suggest that they won’t do their best to ignore it. -- James K. Galbraith * Project Syndicate *Stephen Marglin’s magnum opus makes a powerful case that we cannot expect the economy to solve its own problems, and that instead economists and policymakers need to put persistent unemployment at the center of their thinking in order to both better understand the economy and to make a stronger case for using fiscal and monetary policy to change it for the better. -- Jason Furman, Harvard University, former Chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic AdvisersThis is a thought-stimulating reconstruction of John Maynard Keynes’s insight that market economies do not automatically gravitate to full-employment equilibrium even if prices are flexible. Stephen Marglin shows, with modern analytical tools and (yet) in an often entertaining style, how normal signal processing leads to real-time adjustments to shocks that can move a competitive economy out of equilibrium in the short run and into a different equilibrium in the long. He succeeds in demonstrating this without invoking all those frictions and imperfections so indispensable to New Keynesians. The book opens a wide array of unorthodox, but well-founded perspectives on past and current issues of economic policy. It is the fruit of life-long research, and it deserves a wide readership. -- Hans-Michael Trautwein, University of Oldenburg, GermanyRaising Keynes is a work of great significance that anyone seriously interested in how capitalism functions and malfunctions should read carefully. Stephen Marglin succeeds in clarifying the central ideas in John Maynard Keynes’s revolutionary macroeconomic framework, while also extending and deepening those ideas in important ways, applying the ideas to our contemporary conditions, and also delivering devastating critiques of orthodox macroeconomic theory and practice. The book is also highly accessible for a work of this nature, without skimping at all on technical details—an almost impossible combination to pull off. -- Robert Pollin, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Penguin Books Ltd The Essential Keynes
Book SynopsisEdited with an introduction by ROBERT SKIDELSKY'Many of the greatest economic evils of our time are the fruits of risk, uncertainty, and ignorance'John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist, and one of the most influential thinkers, of the twentieth century. He overturned the orthodoxy that markets were optimally self-regulating, and instead argued for state intervention to ensure full employment and economic stability. This new selection is the first comprehensive single-volume edition of Keynes's writings on economics, philosophy, social theory and policy, including several pieces never before published. Full of irony and wit, they offer a dazzling introduction to a figure whose ideas still have urgent relevance today.Trade Review“The essential Keynes cannot be sketched in a chart or mechanized, and we are the worse for it. But Robert Skidelsky has done us a service by putting it in a handy book.” – The Times Literary Supplement
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Say’s Law and the Keynesian Revolution: How
Book SynopsisThis highly original contribution examines one of the most controversial concepts in the history of economics - the true meaning of the Law of Markets. This has been a contentious issue since the publication of Keynes's General Theory, but has also divided economists since it first emerged almost two centuries ago in the writings of James Mill. This book discusses the change in the understanding of the nature of the business cycle wrought by the General Theory whose major innovation in overturning Say's Law was to introduce demand deficiency into mainstream economic thought.The volume provides a robust and innovative exposition of the crucial point of division between classical and Keynesian economics, demonstrating that the role of demand deficiency was the fundamental issue at stake. Steven Kates first discusses Keynes's interpretation of Say's Law before documenting its development within classical theory. He then charts the development of post-General Theory interpretations of Say's Law, challenging Keynes's definition which was captured in the phrase 'supply creates its own demand'. The author also attempts to unravel the vast literature on the progress made by Keynes between his Treatise on Money published in 1930 and the General Theory, published six years later. He suggests that the crucial point in the origins of the General Theory was Keynes's discovery of Malthus's writings on Say's Law at the very depths of the Great Depression in 1932.This provocative book will be required reading for scholars and students interested in the history of economic thought, the history of macroeconomics and the Keynesian revolution.Trade Review'Say's Law and the Keynesian Revolution is a book par excellence. I have never encountered a text that explains the business cycle so cogently and provides a thorough repudiation of Keynesian economics to boot. It is a great contribution to economic literature.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Say’s Law in the Structure of the General Theory 2. J.-B. Say, James Mill and Robert Torrens 3. David Ricardo 4. John Stuart Mill 5. Say’s Law in English Classical Theory 6. Say’s Law in the Classical Theory of the Business Cycle 7. Keynes’s Discovery of Say’s Law 8. Influences Deepening Keynes’s Understanding of Say’s Law 9. The Early Post-General Theory Evolution of Say’s Law 10. Modern Interpretations of Say’s Law 11. Critics of the Modern Interpretation 12. Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index
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Liberty Fund Inc Contra Keynes Cambridge
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Economics of Keynes: A New Guide to The
Book SynopsisIn his 'New Guide' to The General Theory, Mark G. Hayes presents Keynes's illustrious work as a sophisticated Marshallian theory of the competitive equilibrium of the economy as a whole. This unique book takes full account of the nature of time and money and illustrates that The General Theory remains highly relevant to the teacher and advanced student of modern macroeconomics. The Economics of Keynes introduces several interpretative innovations to resolve many puzzles presented in the literature of the last 70 years. It is designed to be read in parallel with The General Theory and will allow modern readers to find their bearings before plunging into an in-depth analysis of major themes contained in The General Theory. The key areas in which this 'New Guide' differs from the familiar exposition of current macroeconomics textbooks are also explicitly identified. The author reaches positive and hopeful conclusions for the development of economic theory and policy.Promoting a thorough understanding of the legitimate domain of equilibrium analysis and a renewed commitment to the possibility of genuinely full employment, this book will provide an illuminating and fascinating read for anyone wishing to appreciate fully the value of The General Theory. More specifically, academics and advanced students of macroeconomics across the board - classical, orthodox, Post Keynesian and heterodox - interested in a fresh attempt to connect The General Theory with modern macroeconomics will find this book to be the ideal tool.Trade Review'Hayes has succeeded in bringing a fresh and stimulating look to Keynes's classic work. I recommend this book to his fellow economists.' -- Paul Dalziel, Economic Issues'Designed to be read along with The General Theory, The Economics of Keynes is an ideal companion to enhance one's understanding of that classic work. A must for anyone who truly wants to call themselves an expert on economics.' -- Midwest Book Review'Hayes's guide to The General Theory is very much better than most, and is strongly recommended. . .' -- J.E. King, History of Economics Review'Mark Hayes has thought long and deeply about Keynes's General Theory and has developed a refreshingly original viewpoint which is bound to stimulate lively discussion and debate.' -- Victoria Chick, University College London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface Five Propositions of The General Theory Prologue 1. Two Theories of Employment 2. Definitions and Ideas 3. The Propensity to Consume 4. The Inducement to Invest 5. Employment, Money and the Price-Level 6. Policy Implications Epilogue References Index
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W. W. Norton & Company Essays in Persuasion
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume show Keynes's attempts to influence the course of events by public persuasion over the period of 1919-40.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Keynes and the Quest for a Moral Science: A Study
Book SynopsisIn this innovative highly readable contribution to the study of Keynes, Wayne Parsons makes a radical departure from the conventional approaches to Keynesian economies.As a political scientist Parsons believes that, if we are to grasp the revolutionary nature of Keynes's way of thinking about policy problems, we need to place his theories in a wider intellectual and inter-disciplinary setting. Keynes, he suggests, was a social scientist, philosopher and opinion-former with one foot in the age of science and another in the age of sorcery. Like Newton, about whom Keynes wrote with considerable knowledge and insight, he was a thinker whose method was rooted in an alchemical fascination with the art of transmutation and the quest for the philosophers' stone. Parsons maintains that unless we appreciate this alchemical quality of Keynes's economics we fail to comprehend his particular genius as a philosopher of possibility. The author paints a portrait of a Bloomsbury Faust, a Mephistopheles in Whitehall: an image which is a long way removed from the modernist discourse which has largely framed our reading of his economics. Free from the mechanistic and positivistic language which has come to obscure his work Wayne Parsons concludes that Keynes can once again become a source of inspiration and illumination for the theory and practice of public policy.Keynes and the Quest for a Moral Science is an accessible, highly readable account which will appeal to scholars and students in the field of economics, history of economics, public policy and history of ideas.Trade Review'Keynes and the Quest for a Moral Science will attract both intellectuals who love ideas and public policy proponents who are looking for a coherent and practical schemata. It is very readable, there is a defined theme, and the author has a learned and fertile mind.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgements 1. A Bloomsbury Faust 2. Newton’s Alchemy and Keynes’s Moral Science 3. Auri Sacra Fames: Money, Sex and Religion 4. Squaring the Circle: The General Theory 5. War and the Transmutation of Capitalism 6. Out of the Ashes: Keynes’s Policy Science Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism
Book SynopsisKeynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism is a major contribution to the continuing debate on macroeconomic policy-making. Tim Congdon has been a strong supporter of monetarist economic principles for over 30 years. His writings - in the newspapers and for parliamentary committees, as well as in academic journals - played an influential role in the transformation of British macroeconomic policy in the 1980s and 1990s. This book brings together the main papers written by the author since his 1992 collection, Reflections on Monetarism. It challenges several 'conventional wisdoms' about UK macroeconomic policy (and thinking about policy), arguing - for example - that the Keynesians' advocacy of incomes policy and fiscal activism in the immediate post-war decades did not have a clear basis in Keynes's own writings. The book denies that the UK had a 'Keynesian revolution', in the sense of a deliberately pursued fiscal activism to promote 'full employment'. Implicit throughout the volume is a distinctive view of how the economy works, with an account of the transmission mechanism (from money to the economy) in which movements in asset prices and aggregate demand are strongly influenced by the quantity of money. Congdon uses this approach to demonstrate that monetary policy has had more powerful effects on macroeconomic activity in the post-war period than fiscal policy. He also suggests that the now fashionable 'New Keynesian' view of policy-making acknowledges the primacy of monetary policy and would be better termed 'output gap monetarism'. In short, Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism contends that monetarism defeated Keynesianism in the battle of ideas in the 1970s and 1980s. The achievement of greater macroeconomic stability in the last 15 years is largely due to the impact of monetarist thinking on policy-making.The book is clearly and attractively written, and covers topics that are fundamental to macroeconomic thinking and policy-making. It will be a provocative and appealing read for scholars at all levels of economics, macroeconomics and monetary theory. It will also find an audience among policymakers in central banks and finance ministries, business economists working in companies, and financial economists in the City of London and other centres.Trade Review'For anyone interested in the macroeconomic policy debates of the last fifty years, this is a very interesting book. It is well-written and draws on a wide range of sources which it treats with respect. One does not have to accept the argument to get a great deal of value from it.' -- Peter Howells, Economic Issues'. . . there is a very useful and good-length introduction with a long appendix on the output gap. . . For anyone trying to understand the post-war British economy some understanding of these debates is essential. Certainly, economists and economic historians will want to read them but others too with an interest in British history and politics and current events will both benefit from and enjoy this collection.' -- Forrest Capie, Economic Affairs'Keynes, the Keynesians and Monetarism is an intriguing miscellaneous of essays by one of Britain's leading monetarist economists in the 1980s and in the 1990s. The book indeed brings together the main academic papers written by the author revising and up-to-dating the previous collection titled, Reflections on Monetarism, with the new papers published in the first years of 2000. The book by this "advocate" of monetarism is very often appealing and provocative, covering topics that are fundamental to macroeconomic thinking and policy-making. . . certainly appealing for macroeconomists and researchers. . .' -- Lino Sau, History of Economic Ideas'In the context of the current economic climate, this volume provides an excellent opportunity for reappraising the arguments on both sides of the debate. . . The importance of this volume is that it provides the interested reader with an excellent summary of the monetarist position prior to the current crisis.' -- Economic Outlook and Business ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: What Were (and are) the Debates All About? PART I: KEYNES AND THE KEYNESIANS 1. Were the Keynesians Loyal Followers of Keynes? 2. What was Keynes’s Best Book? 3. Keynes, the Keynesians and the Exchange Rate PART II: THE SO-CALLED ‘KEYNESIAN REVOLUTION’ 4. Did Britain have a ‘Keynesian Revolution’? 5. Is Anything Left of the ‘Keynesian Revolution’? PART III: DEFINING BRITISH MONETARISM 6. The Political Economy of Monetarism 7. British and American Monetarism Compared PART IV: THE DEBATE ON THE 1981 BUDGET 8. Do Budget Deficits ‘Crowd Out’ Private Investment? 9. Did the 1981 Budget Refute Naïve Keynesianism? 10. An Exchange 25 Years Later between Professor Stephen Nickell and Tim Congdon PART V: DID MONETARISM SUCCEED? 11. Assessing the Conservatives’ Record 12. Criticizing the Critics of Monetarism 13. Has Macroeconomic Stability Since 1992 Been Due to Keynesianism, Monetarism or What? PART VI: HOW THE ECONOMY WORKS 14. Money, Asset Prices and Economic Activity 15. Some Aspects of the Transmission Mechanism Index
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Must Have Books The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Book SynopsisThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is Keynes'' masterpiece published right after the Great Depression. It sought to bring about a revolution, commonly referred to as the "Keynesian Revolution", in the way economists thought - especially challenging the proposition that a market economy tends naturally to restore itself to full employment on its own. Regarded widely as the cornerstone of Keynesian thought, this book challenged the established classical economics and introduced new concepts. It remains a relevant topic of debate to this day, perhaps more than ever. Given the economic turmoil of recent years, this debate is more heated than ever, between the Keynesian model of economics of Bush and Obama which favors bailouts and other government intervention to try to stabilize the market, and the Austrian school of economics which sees government intervention as detrimental and favors letting the market sort itself out on its own with minimal government interference. You decide.
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Harvard University Press Return to Keynes
Book SynopsisKeynesian economics has recently seen a rebirth, most dramatically illustrated when central banks pumped billions of dollars of liquidity into the world's financial system to address the crises of confidence, illiquidity, and insolvency triggered by the sub-prime lending crisis. The contributors assess this new era in economic policy making.Trade ReviewDuring the 1990s, John Maynard Keynes, and Keynesian economics, were declared to be well and truly dead. Then came the financial and economic crises of 2008 and they were reborn as a way of understanding economies with significant unemployment. This excellent collection of essays, brought together by three prominent scholars of Keynes and Keynesian policy, will be a convenient way for those who have forgotten Keynesian economics to refresh themselves, and for others to learn for the first time. -- Craufurd Goodwin, Duke UniversityThis fascinating collection of papers addresses the current status and relevance of Keynes from a number of perspectives: the return of macroeconomic policy activism, the state of modern macroeconomics, the recent scholarship of Keynes's life and work, and some elements of Keynes's work that might be relevant to the current crisis. The authors' backgrounds are diverse and their scholarship often cutting-edge. A fine guide to the present state of play. -- D.E. Moggridge, University of TorontoIt is a basic truth in the history of economics that great ideas never die. They attain this permanence because they are shaped by both the internal demands of economic theorizing as well as the external realities of the economy. The Return to Keynes, edited by three distinguished scholars, testifies to this truth and demonstrates that doing the history of economics is a part of doing economics well. Keynesian macroeconomic policy as a tool for stabilization is now firmly fixed in the toolbox of economics. -- Yuichi Shionoya, Hitotsubashi UniversityTable of Contents* Introduction: The Return to Keynes Bradley W. Bateman, Toshiaki Hirai and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo Part I: Keynesian Economic Policy: Past, Present and Future * Keynes Returns to America Bradley W. Bateman * Japan's Long-run Stagnation and Economic Policies Yoshiyasu Ono * European Macroeconomic Policy: A Return to Active Stabilization? Hans-Michael Trautwein Part II: Interpreting Keynesian Theory and Keynesianism * From the 'Old' to the 'New' Keynesian-Neoclassical Synthesis: An Interpretation Richard Arena * Tobin's Keynesianism Robert W. Dimand * The New Neoclassical Synthesis and the Wicksell-Keynes Connection Mauro Boianovsky and Hans-Michael Trautwein Part III: Re-reading and Interpreting Keynes * An Abstruse and Mathematical Argument: The Use of Mathematical Reasoning in the General Theory Roger E. Backhouse * The General Theory: Toward the Concept of Stochastic Macro-equilibrium Hiroshi Yoshikawa * Keynes's Economics in the Making Toshiaki Hirai * Keynes, Sraffa and the Latter's "Secret Skepticism" Heinz D. Kurz * Keynes and the War of Words Gilles Dostaler Part IV: Global Crisis: Lessons from Keynes * Keynes and Modern International Finance Theory Marcello De Cecco * Keynes's Influence on Modern Economics: Some Overlooked Contributions of Keynes's Theory of Finance and Economic Policy Jan A. Kregel * Current Global Imbalances: Might Keynes Be of Help? Anna M. Carabelli and Mario A. Cedrini * References * Contributors * Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Say’s Law and the Keynesian Revolution: How
Book SynopsisThis highly original contribution examines one of the most controversial concepts in the history of economics - the true meaning of the Law of Markets. This has been a contentious issue since the publication of Keynes's General Theory, but has also divided economists since it first emerged almost two centuries ago in the writings of James Mill. This book discusses the change in the understanding of the nature of the business cycle wrought by the General Theory whose major innovation in overturning Say's Law was to introduce demand deficiency into mainstream economic thought.The volume provides a robust and innovative exposition of the crucial point of division between classical and Keynesian economics, demonstrating that the role of demand deficiency was the fundamental issue at stake. Steven Kates first discusses Keynes's interpretation of Say's Law before documenting its development within classical theory. He then charts the development of post-General Theory interpretations of Say's Law, challenging Keynes's definition which was captured in the phrase 'supply creates its own demand'. The author also attempts to unravel the vast literature on the progress made by Keynes between his Treatise on Money published in 1930 and the General Theory, published six years later. He suggests that the crucial point in the origins of the General Theory was Keynes's discovery of Malthus's writings on Say's Law at the very depths of the Great Depression in 1932.This provocative book will be required reading for scholars and students interested in the history of economic thought, the history of macroeconomics and the Keynesian revolution.Trade Review'Say's Law and the Keynesian Revolution is a book par excellence. I have never encountered a text that explains the business cycle so cogently and provides a thorough repudiation of Keynesian economics to boot. It is a great contribution to economic literature.'Table of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Say’s Law in the Structure of the General Theory 2. J.-B. Say, James Mill and Robert Torrens 3. David Ricardo 4. John Stuart Mill 5. Say’s Law in English Classical Theory 6. Say’s Law in the Classical Theory of the Business Cycle 7. Keynes’s Discovery of Say’s Law 8. Influences Deepening Keynes’s Understanding of Say’s Law 9. The Early Post-General Theory Evolution of Say’s Law 10. Modern Interpretations of Say’s Law 11. Critics of the Modern Interpretation 12. Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd KEYNES, COORDINATION AND BEYOND: The Development
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the coordination problem lies at the heart of Keynes’s economics. It shows how Keynes’s message got lost in the post-War period and develops a more fruitful extension of Keynes’s ideas within a general equilibrium framework and alternative frameworks such as post Keynesian and Austrian economics. It is demonstrated that in the absence of a coordinating device like the Walrasian auctioneer or in the presence of uncertainty, coordination can no longer be superimposed. This ultimately implies that apart from some notable exceptions, the Keynesian revolution was in fact stifled at birth because the validity of the central concepts of microeconomics have never been challenged.This lively and fascinating book is likely to provoke debate amongst economists and policymakers. Its conclusions place a question mark over the development of economic theory since the Second World War.Table of ContentsIndeterminacy in macroeconomics: on the structure of Keynes's general theory; the right answers to the wrong question? - an assessment of the microfoundations debate; alternative approaches; indeterminacy and multiplicity; money, prices and uncertainty; the trade-off between price flexibility and price rigidity; implications of the co-ordination problem.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Money, Investment and Consumption: Keynes’s
Book SynopsisContrary to the commonly perpetuated belief that Keynes's theory is appropriate only to economic depressions, the author of this provocative book maintains that Keynes provided a complete set of macroeconomic relations and the ingredients of a new theoretical model, much more reflective of and analytically appropriate to the 21st century than those on which current macroeconomics is based.With the perspective of Keynes as the backdrop, the author begins with a discussion of the characteristics of the financial crises of 2008 and the 1930s. He then goes on to show that Keynes provided a novel, general theory, constructed as the EC-SP model (different from that of the Classicals' Labour Theory of Value model and the neoClassicals' antithetical IS-LM model), a theory yet unrecognized as being behind both A Treatise on Money and The General Theory. He presents here the premises of Keynes's contributions which still await use by a generation of economists to reassess macroeconomics and orient it in a new direction.This unique and authoritative look at Keynes's body of work will be an essential read for scholars and students of economics. Anyone trying to understand the state of the 'entrepreneurial economy', of which the 2008 financial crisis is but one manifestation prone to recurrence, will find the work an important resource.Trade Review'Professor Hamouda's book is very timely and thought provoking and should be an eye opener for students of economics who were brought up in the anti-Keynesian last decades of the twentieth century, or were taught the garbled rather than updated revived Keynesianism which has recently become popular.' -- Y.S. Brenner, Retired Professor of Economics, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction 1. The Financial Crisis of 2008 and the UnKeynesian Keynes 2. Money, Price, and Interest 3. Keynes’s Semantic Shifts: The Shock of A Treatise on Money 4. Keynes’s Theoretical Shift: Casualty of the Criticism of the Treatise 5. Keynes’s Causal Relations: The General Theory Derailed 6. Inflation/Deflation and the Policy of the General General Theory Conclusion Appendices Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Keynes Beveridge and Beyond Routledge Library Editions The Economics
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Cambridge University Press THE BEAGLE RECORD SELECTIONS FROM THE ORIGINAL PICTORIAL RECORDS AND WRITTEN ACCOUNTS OF THE VOYAGE OF HMS BEAGLE
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Money, Investment and Consumption: Keynes’s
Book SynopsisContrary to the commonly perpetuated belief that Keynes's theory is appropriate only to economic depressions, the author of this provocative book maintains that Keynes provided a complete set of macroeconomic relations and the ingredients of a new theoretical model, much more reflective of and analytically appropriate to the 21st century than those on which current macroeconomics is based.With the perspective of Keynes as the backdrop, the author begins with a discussion of the characteristics of the financial crises of 2008 and the 1930s. He then goes on to show that Keynes provided a novel, general theory, constructed as the EC-SP model (different from that of the Classicals' Labour Theory of Value model and the neoClassicals' antithetical IS-LM model), a theory yet unrecognized as being behind both A Treatise on Money and The General Theory. He presents here the premises of Keynes's contributions which still await use by a generation of economists to reassess macroeconomics and orient it in a new direction.This unique and authoritative look at Keynes's body of work will be an essential read for scholars and students of economics. Anyone trying to understand the state of the 'entrepreneurial economy', of which the 2008 financial crisis is but one manifestation prone to recurrence, will find the work an important resource.Trade Review'Professor Hamouda's book is very timely and thought provoking and should be an eye opener for students of economics who were brought up in the anti-Keynesian last decades of the twentieth century, or were taught the garbled rather than updated revived Keynesianism which has recently become popular.' -- Y.S. Brenner, Retired Professor of Economics, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction 1. The Financial Crisis of 2008 and the UnKeynesian Keynes 2. Money, Price, and Interest 3. Keynes’s Semantic Shifts: The Shock of A Treatise on Money 4. Keynes’s Theoretical Shift: Casualty of the Criticism of the Treatise 5. Keynes’s Causal Relations: The General Theory Derailed 6. Inflation/Deflation and the Policy of the General General Theory Conclusion Appendices Index
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Cambridge University Press The Making of Keynes General Theory Raffaele Mattioli Lectures
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iUniverse DAUGHTER OF THE REVOLUTION A Novel
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Cambridge University Press Revolution Economics and Religion
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Springer International Publishing AG The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and
Book SynopsisThis book was originally published by Macmillan in 1936. It was voted the top Academic Book that Shaped Modern Britain by Academic Book Week (UK) in 2017, and in 2011 was placed on Time Magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. Reissued with a fresh Introduction by the Nobel-prize winner Paul Krugman and a new Afterword by Keynes’ biographer Robert Skidelsky, this important work is made available to a new generation. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money transformed economics and changed the face of modern macroeconomics. Keynes’ argument is based on the idea that the level of employment is not determined by the price of labour, but by the spending of money. It gave way to an entirely new approach where employment, inflation and the market economy are concerned. Highly provocative at its time of publication, this book and Keynes’ theories continue to remain the subject of much support and praise, criticism and debate. Economists at any stage in their career will enjoy revisiting this treatise and observing the relevance of Keynes’ work in today’s contemporary climate.Table of ContentsPreface by John Maynard Keynes Preface to the German Edition Preface to the Japanese Edition Preface to the French Edition Introduction by Paul Krugman Book I Introduction 1 The General Theory 2 The Postulates of the Classical Eco 3 The Principle of Effective Demand Book II Definitions and Ideas 4 The Choice of Units 5 Expectation as Determining Output and Employment. 6 The Definition of Income, Saving and Investment. 7 The Meaning of Saving and Investment Further Considered Book III The Propensity to Consume 8 The Propensity to Consume: I. The Objective Factors 9 The Propensity to Consume: II. The Subjective Factors 10 The Marginal Propensity to Consume and the Multiplier Book IV The Inducement to Invest 11 The Marginal Efficiency of Capital 12 The State of Long-Term Expectation 13 The General Theory of the Rate of Interest 14 The Classical Theory of the Rate of Interest 15 The Psychological and Business Incentives to Liquidity 16 Sundry Observations on the Nature of Capital 17 The Essential Properties of Interest and Money 18 The General Theory of Employment Re-Stated Book V Money-wages and Prices 19 Changes in Money-wages 20 The Employment Function 21 The Theory of Prices.- Book VI Short Notes Suggested by the General Theory 22 Notes on the Trade Cycle 23 Notes on Mercantilism, The Usury Laws, Stamped Money and Theories Of Under-Consumption 24 Concluding Notes on the Social Philosophy Towards which the General Theory Might Lead Afterword by Robert Skidelsky
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iUniverse Daughter of the Revolution A Novel
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Atlantic Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd The General Theory of Employment, Interest and
Book SynopsisKeynes's General Theory emphasized government's role in regulating economy. Recent debates on interpreting his ideas stress importance of original text. Keynes advocated for government spending during downturns to restore full employment by boosting demand.
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Verso Books How to Be a Revolutionary: A Novel
Book SynopsisFleeing her moribund marriage in Cape Town, Beth accepts a diplomatic posting to Shanghai. In this anonymous city she hopes to lose herself in books, wine, and solitude, and to dodge whatever pangs of conscience she feels for her fealty to a South African regime that, by the 21st century, has betrayed its early promises.At night, she hears the sound of typing, and then late one evening Zhao arrives at her door. They explore hidden Shanghai and discover a shared love of Langston Hughes--who had his own Chinese and African sojourns. But then Zhao vanishes, and a typewritten manuscript--chunk by chunk--appears at her doorstep instead. The truths unearthed in this manuscript cause her to reckon with her own past, and the long-buried story of what happened to Kay, her fearless, revolutionary friend...Connecting contemporary Shanghai, late Apartheid-era South Africa, and China during the Great Leap Forward and the Tiananmen uprising--and refracting this globe-trotting and time-traveling through Hughes' confessional letters to a South African protege about the poet's time in Shanghai--How to Be a Revolutionary is an amazingly ambitious novel. It's also a heartbreaking exploration of what we owe our countries, our consciences, and ourselves.Trade ReviewOn The Blacks of Cape Town: Beautifully written and compelling. She shows how notions of belonging, of home and exile, are contingent on much more than place and history. -- James Smith * Africa in Words *How to Be a Revolutionary is a novel about the costs of remembering the past and the far more dire consequences of forgetting it. -- Eileen Gonzalez * Foreword *South African novelist Davids delivers a politically charged story of love and espionage. An intriguing story that...winds its way to an elegantly satisfying conclusion. * Kirkus Review *Deeply rewarding and pleasurable. -- Khairani Barokka * The White Review, Books of the Year 2021 *There is much to admire here: Davids is excellent on the grind of daily life under repressive regimes, whether it be the brutal terror of apartheid South Africa or the technocratic surveillance state that is present-day China. -- Peter Whittaker * New Internationalist *Kaleidoscopic...An admirably ambitious and absorbing exploration of activism, betrayal and daily life in interesting times, of increasing relevance in many parts of the world. -- Sarah Moss * New York Times *History, like revolutions, is complicated, and Davids is sensitive in her portrayal of the impossible choices that ordinary people face during moments of acute political crisis. -- Rhian Sasseen * Paris Review *C.A. Davids doesn't shy away from confronting big issues that constitute the human condition today. At its heart is the question of how the specific events and actions that comprise the lives of individuals might speak to, and indeed influence, a shared social consciousness. -- Mark Rappolt * ArtReview *Exquisite ... the sheer beauty of the prose and the shrewdness of the observations will keep the reader entranced. -- Glen Retief * Mail & Guardian *How To Be A Revolutionary is a fabulous, sometimes frightening flight of transnational imagination, a truly original debut novel by C.A. Davids. The parallel tales of these three uncertain "revolutionaries" include a fictional story of the poet Langston Hughes, and traverse across time and place, from the 1930's to the present day, circling around Shanghai, Cape Town and Harlem. This novel could be a textbook for how to write politics and history into a novel, without sentimentality or self-righteous ideology, because Davids' characters are all vital, flawed and persuasively real. As well, the narrative is rooted in a deep understanding of the political histories and worlds it portrays. This is also a profound and complex investigation of what it means to be both privileged and oppressed, and how there are no easy choices on either the "right" or "wrong" side of history. A fascinating read that takes you into many hearts of darkness. Davids is a talented new voice, and a visionary storyteller of the inescapable histories and experiences that connect us all. -- Xu Xi, author of Insignificance
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Cambridge University Press Revolution Economics and Religion
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Cambridge University Press Encomium Emmae Reginae 4 Camden Classic Reprints
Book SynopsisThe Encomium Emmae Reginae is a political tract in praise, as its title suggests, of Queen Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy, wife of King Ethelred the Unready from 1002 to 1016, and wife of the Danish conqueror King Cnut from 1017 to 1035. It is a primary source of the utmost importance for our understanding of the Danish conquest of England in the early eleventh century, and for the political intrigue in the years which followed the death of King Cnut in 1035. It offers a remarkable account of a woman who was twice a queen, and of her determination to retain her power as queen-mother. This reprint, which contains the definitive text and translation of the Encomium Emmae Reginae first published in 1949, traces the basic outline of Queen Emma's career and transports us to the heart of eleventh-century politics by defining as clearly as possible the historical context in which the Encomium was written.Trade Review"This reprint of the Encomium Emmae Reginae is most welcome. not only does it make an important eleventh-century source of English and women's history more readily available, but Simon Keynes' supplementary introduction provides a helpful and thorough discussion of the historical issues raised in this work." The Medieval ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the 1998 reprint; Introduction to the 1998 edition; Abbreviations and bibliography; Introduction; Encomium Emmae Reginae; Appendices; General index; Index to the text of the Encomium; Glossary.
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Cambridge University Press Mechanism and the Novel
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