Introduction
Chapter 1: Modigliani before Modigliani
Chapter 2: Approaching Keynes and American Keynesianism
Chapter 3: Keynesian economics in between corporative and socialist economics
Chapter 4: Modigliani at the University of Illinois: "The Bowen war" and McCarthyism
Chapter 5: Uncertainty and Expectations: Modigliani at Carnegie Tech
Chapter 6: The life cycle savings in an unstable system
Chapter 7: Becoming Keynesian
Index
Biography
Antonella Rancan is Associate Professor of Economics at University of Molise, Italy.
"Antonella Rancan’s new book retraces the intellectual path of Franco Modigliani, from his early writings, including the famous article on Keynesian and classical economics (Modigliani 1944), to his contributions of the 1950s and 1960s.1 In this way, Rancan offers relevant insights into the origins and development of the neoclassical synthesis of Keynesian macroeconomic thinking."
"It stands to Rancan’s credit that she traces the foundations of Modigliani’s Keynesian belief in discretionary economic policy as a stabilising tool to his early convictions as student and young researcher. As Rancan makes clear, it is on the terrain of empirical analysis, economic policy and value judgements, rather than on the strictly theoretical ground, that Modigliani’s Keynesianism is defined."
Paolo Paesani
Review of Political Economy
