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

Klappentext Examining the emergence! in the inter-war years! of what came to be called 'Keynesian macroeconomics'. Zusammenfassung Laidler surveys the writings of a large number of economists in the inter-war 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' which had been developing for twenty years or more. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: David Laidler, David (University of Western Ontario) Laidler
• Assisted by: Craufurd Goodwin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.1999
• EAN: 9780521641739
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64173-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Historical Perspectives on Mod
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries