Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution: Studies of the Inter-War Literature on Money, the Cycle, and Unemployment

ISBN-13: 9780521641739 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 400 str.

David Laidler; Craufurd Goodwin

Opis

It is a commonly held belief that, in 1936, Keynes' General Theory ushered in a new era in economic thought, with faith in the free market being replaced by reliance on systematic government intervention as a means of keeping the economy on an even keel. This book surveys the writings of a large number of economists in the interwar years and argues that the "Keynesian Revolution" is a myth, and that the "new economics" was a careful and selective synthesis of an "old economics" that had been developing for twenty years or more.

Recenzje

"...brilliantly conceived and splendidly executed...No one interested in the economics or the economic history of the interwar period should fail to read it." Journal of Economics, Susan Showson, University of Toronto

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. An overview; Part I. The Wicksellians: 2. Wicksellian origins; 3. The macrodynamics of the Stockholm school; Part II. The Marshallian Tradition in Britain: 4. Cambridge cycle theory: Lavington, Pigou and Robertson; 5. The monetary element in the Cambridge tradition; 6. The Treatise on Money and related contributions; 7. British discussions of unemployment; Part III. American Analysis of Money and the Cycle: 8. American macroeconomics between World War I and the Depression; 9. American macroeconomics in the early 1930s; Part IV. Keynes, the Classical and IS-LM: 10. The General Theory; 11. The classics and Mr. Keynes; 12. IS-LM and the General Theory; 13. Selective synthesis; References.