Rethinking The Keynesian Revolution

Author : Tyler Beck Goodspeed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019994279X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution written by Tyler Beck Goodspeed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While standard accounts of the 1930s debates surrounding economic thought pit John Maynard Keynes against Friedrich von Hayek in a clash of ideology, this reflexive dichotomy is in many respects superficial. It is the argument of this book that both Keynes and Hayek developed their respective theories of the business cycle within the tradition of Swedish economist Knut Wicksell, and that this shared genealogy manifested itself in significant theoretical affinities between the two supposed antagonists. The salient features of Wicksell's work, namely the importance of money, the role of uncertainty, coordination failures, and the element of time in capital accumulation, all motivated the Keynesian and Hayekian theories of economic fluctuations. They also contributed to a fundamental convergence between the two economists during the 1930s. This shared, "Wicksellian" vision of economic problems points to a very different research agenda from that of the Walrasian-style, general equilibrium analysis that has dominated postwar macroeconomics. This book will appeal to economists interested in historical perspective of their discipline, as well as historians of economic thought. The author not only deconstructs some of the historical misconceptions of the Keynes versus Hayek debate, but also suggests how the insights uncovered can inform and instruct modern theory. While much of the analysis is technical, it does not assume previous knowledge of 1930s economic theory, and should be accessible to academics and graduate students with general economics training.

Author : Olivier Blanchard
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262039362
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution or Revolution? written by Olivier Blanchard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading economists discuss post–financial crisis policy dilemmas, including the dangers of complacency in a period of relative stability. The Great Depression led to the Keynesian revolution and dramatic shifts in macroeconomic theory and macroeconomic policy. Similarly, the stagflation of the 1970s led to the adoption of the natural rate hypothesis and to a major reassessment of the role of macroeconomic policy. Should the financial crisis and the Great Recession lead to yet another major reassessment, to another intellectual revolution? Will it? If so, what form should it, or will it, take? These are the questions taken up in this book, in a series of contributions by policymakers and academics. The contributors discuss the complex role of the financial sector, the relative roles of monetary and fiscal policy, the limits of monetary policy to address financial stability, the need for fiscal policy to play a more active role in stabilization, and the relative roles of financial regulation and macroprudential tools. The general message is a warning against going back to precrisis ways—to narrow inflation targeting, little use of fiscal policy for stabilization, and insufficient financial regulation. Contributors David Aikman, Alan J. Auerbach, Ben S. Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, Lael Brainard, Markus K. Brunnermeier, Marco Buti, Benoît Cœuré, Mario Draghi, Barry Eichengreen, Jason Furman, Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Andrew G. Haldane, Philipp Hildebrand, Marc Hinterschweiger, Sujit Kapadia, Nellie Liang, Adam S. Posen, Raghuram Rajan, Valerie Ramey, Carmen Reinhart, Dani Rodrik, Robert E. Rubin, Jay C. Shambaugh, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Jeremy C. Stein, Lawrence H. Summers

Author : Robert Cord
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135132178
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinterpreting The Keynesian Revolution written by Robert Cord and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various explanations have been put forward as to why the Keynesian Revolution in economics in the 1930s and 1940s took place. Some of these point to the temporal relevance of John Maynard Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), appearing, as it did, just a handful of years after the onset of the Great Depression, whilst others highlight the importance of more anecdotal evidence, such as Keynes’s close relations with the Cambridge ‘Circus’, a group of able, young Cambridge economists who dissected and assisted Keynes in developing crucial ideas in the years leading up to the General Theory. However, no systematic effort has been made to bring together these and other factors to examine them from a sociology of science perspective. This book fills this gap by taking its cue from a well-established tradition of work from history of science studies devoted to identifying the intellectual, technical, institutional, psychological and financial factors which help to explain why certain research schools are successful and why others fail. This approach, it turns out, provides a coherent account of why the revolution in macroeconomics was ‘Keynesian’ and why, on a related note, Keynes was able to see off contemporary competitor theorists, notably Friedrich von Hayek and Michal Kalecki.

Author : Gordon A. Fletcher
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134908736X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Keynesian Revolution and its Critics written by Gordon A. Fletcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gordon A. Fletcher
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349201081
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keynesian Revolution and Its Critics written by Gordon A. Fletcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the pioneering economic work by John Maynard Keynes, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", and attempts to explain, with constant reference to the original sources, the complexity of Keynes' theories and the critical response they evoked.

Author : Lawrence R. Klein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349163198
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Keynesian Revolution written by Lawrence R. Klein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Laidler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521645966
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution written by David Laidler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-28 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the emergence, in the inter-war years, of what came to be called 'Keynesian macroeconomics'.

Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924-1936 written by Peter Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name of John Maynard Keynes is still the focus of political and economic controversy, and in the course of it, "what Keynes really meant" has suffered much distortion. This book represents a quest for the historical Keynes. It follows the story of an argument which arose out of the performance of the British economy in the period of depression between the wars and provides an account of Keynes's thinking in the years that led up to the General Theory, making it comprehensible to specialists and non-specialists alike.

Author : Robert William Dimand
Publisher : Hants, England : Elgar
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Keynesian Revolution written by Robert William Dimand and published by Hants, England : Elgar. This book was released on 1988 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is well researched and clearly written, and is a valuable account of the evolution of Keynes s ideas in the period under review. I recommend The Origins of the Keynesian Revolution as a scholarly study of the evolution of an important aspect of macroeconomics. Athol Fitzgibbons, Australian Economic History Review This is a very good treatment, adding to a growing literature on the development of John Maynard Keynes s monetary theory as it progressed from the Tract through the Treatise to the General Theory. Professor Dimand has given us a very good account of all this. His book should be used not only in history of thought courses but also in macro and money courses as an antidote, if nothing else, to the extremely limited view of Keynesian economics which most textbooks provide. Thomas K. Rymes, Journal of the History of Economic Thought Robert Dimand has written a superb book. . . . It is appropriate for use in classes on the history of economic thought and will serve as a nice supplement in a macroeconomics course. It would be perfect in a seminar on the development of Keynes s thought. Indeed, it would not be surprising if more of such courses were taught as a result of the publication of this excellent little book. Bruce J. Caldwell, Review of Political Economy This book traces an important and exciting chapter in the history of economic thought, with painstaking documentation from old sources and from previously unexploited, unpublished material. It does this with a sure and mature understanding of the intellectual and theoretical issues. Dimand is an excellent theorist himself. The book is beautifully and clearly written. James Tobin, Yale University, US Dimand s book will stimulate much discussion. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the development of monetary and macroeconomic theory during the 1920s and 1960s. Robert Stanley Herren, Journal of Economic History Robert Dimand has written an excellent study of the evolution of J.M. Keynes s economic thought from its origins in orthodox Cambridge monetary theory through its early 1930s development leading to the General Theory. John B. Davis, Review of Social Economy

Author : Lawrence Robert Klein
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Keynesian Revolution written by Lawrence Robert Klein and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1947 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: