1st Edition

Keynes' General Theory of Interest A Reconsideration

By Fiona MacLachlan Copyright 1993
208 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

In Keynes' General Theory of Interest Fiona Maclachlan rehabilitates the largely discredited liquidity preference theory of interest, providing an original and rigorously reasoned restatement of the theory. Her provocative book draws on the methodological tenets of the Austrian school and is grounded firmly both in the history of economic thought and in real world economic institutions.

1. Introduction 2. Methodology and Definitions 3. The Theory of Interest from an Essentialist Perspective. 4. A Causal Process Analysis of Equilibrium in the Cash-Debt Market. 5. Keynes and the Liquidity Preference Theory. 6. The Liquidity Preference versus Loanable Funds Debate. 7. Liquidity Preference and Intertemporal Coordination. 8. Concluding Summary.

Biography

MacLachlan, Fiona