1st Edition

John Maynard Keynes Critical Assessments

    2130 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1982. This collection is part of the Routledge Critical Assessments of Leading Economists series. John Maynard Keynes: Critical Assessments presents a detailed overview of the analytic writings on John Maynard Keynes from contemporary sources through to the present day. All aspects of Keynes’ writings are considered from both their theoretical and practical applications. The volumes are arranged thematically under the following headings: 1. The Life of John Maynard Keynes and Perspectives on his Thought 2. Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money 3. Keynesian Economic Analysis (Volumes III & IV).

    Volume I: Preface; General Commentary; Appendix: Chronological Table of Reprinted Articles Section One: The Life of John Maynard Keynes and Perspectives on his Thought. A. THE LIFE OF JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES; Lord Keynes; John Maynard Keynes; John Maynard Keynes (Some Personal Notes); Keynes as an Economist; John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946; John Maynard Keynes; John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946; John Maynard Keynes; Keynes in Cambridge ; Keynes as a Public Servant; The Life of John Maynard Keynes; Keynes; John Maynard Keynes: Scientist or Politician? B. PERSPECTIVES ON KEYNES’ THOUGHT; The Pragmatic Basis of Keynes’s Political Economy; Keynes and Statistics; Keynes and the Economic System; J.M. Keynes’ Concept of Economic Science; Reflections on the Work and Influence of John Maynard Keynes; J.M. Keynes. Part I: His Life and Thought. Part II: His Theory II; Keynes and the Forces of History: A Comment. (Followed by A. Smithies’ Reply); Keynes and the Nature of Human Affairs; The Social Philosophy of John Maynard Keynes; The Logic of Uncertainty According to J.M. Keynes; Keynes on Lloyd George; The Early Economics of Keynes; Keynes on the Sources of Economic Growth; Keynes Revisited; The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Volumes I-VI and XV-XVI; 'A Dear Money Man’?: Keynes on Monetary Policy, Keynes on Monetary Policy, 1910-1946; Some More Keynesian Economics; The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: From the Tract to the General Theory; Keynes and Econometrics: On the Interaction Between the Macroeconomic Revolutions of the Interwar Period; Some Aspects of the Development of Keynes' Thought; Keynes, the Treasury and Unemployment in the Later Nineteen-Thirties; The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Activities 1940-43 and 1944-46: A Review Article; New Materials on the Development of Keynes’ Monetary. Volume II Section Two: Keyne's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money Commentary. Mr Keynes on Employment and Output, Mr J.M. Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money; The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money; Mr Keynes’ Theory of Employment; Review of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money; Mr Keynes’ ‘General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money’; Mr Keynes on Underemployment Equilibrium; Mr Keynes on the Causes of Unemployment; Some Notes on Mr Keynes’ General Theory of Employment; The Fundamental Assumption of Mr Keynes’ Monetary Theory of Unemployment; Employment and the National Dividend; The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money; A Simplified Model of Mr Keynes’ System; Unemployment And Mr Keynes’ Revolution in Economic; Mr Keynes and the ‘Classics’: A Suggested Interpretation; The Rate of Interest and the Optimum Propensity to Consume; Lord Keynes and The General Theory; Keynes and the General Theory; The Place of the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in the History of Economic Thought; The Fallacies of Lord Keynes’ General Theory; The Significance of the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money; The Fallacies of Lord Keynes’ General Theory: Comment; After Twenty Years: The General Theory; The General Theory after Twenty-Five Years(with Discussion); A Note on Keynesian Mathematics; Keynesian Probability and the General Theory; The Social and Intellectual Origins of the General Theory ; Keynes and the Economic Activists of Pre-Hitler Germany; The Aggregative Structure of Keynes’s General Theory ; Keynes’ General Theory: Revolution or War of Independence? A Revised Perspective of Keynes’s General Theory; ‘Uncertainty’ in Keynes’; The Role of Nominal Wage Contracts in Keynes’ General; The General Theory for a Totalitarian State? A Note on Keynes’s Preface to the German Edition of ; Keynes’ General Theory: A Different Perspective. Volume III Section Three: Keynesian Economic Analysis, Commentary. The Future of Keynesian Economics; The Keynesian Revolution in Economics; Dr Bums on Keynesian Economics; Keynesian Economics Once Again; Hansen’s Rejoinder); An Exposition of Keynesian Economics; An Appraisal of Keynesian Economics. (Followed by Discussion); 0. Keynes and Economic Analysis Today; The Keynesian Revolution and Economic Development; Lord Keynes’ Theory of Wages; Professor Leontief on Lord Keynes. (Followed by Comments); Recent Discussion of Keynes’ Theory of Wages: A Review; An Exposition of the Keynesian System; The Re-examination of Keynesian Economics in the Light of Employment Experience; The Re-examining of Keynesian Economics: Comment. (Followed by Philbrook’s Reply); Keynesian Economics in Relation to Underdeveloped Countries; Supply Functions in Keynesian Economics; 0. On Keynes’ Economic System. Part I-II; Some Critical Observations on the Major Keynesian Building Blocks; Keynes and Supply Functions; Keynes and Supply Functions: A Rejoinder An Evaluation of John Maynard Keynes; Keynes and Supply Functions. (Followed by H. Johnson’s Mathematical Appendix); Keynes and Supply Functions: Second Rejoinder, with a Note on the Concept of Monetary Equilibrium; A Graphical Exposition of the Complete Keynesian System; What is Surviving? An Appraisal of Keynesian Economics on its Twentieth Anniversary; The Influence of Keynesian Economics on Contemporary Thought; 00. Keynesian Economics After Twenty Years: Discussion; Malthus and Keynes: A Reconsideration; Keynes and the Classics: A Dynamical Perspective; Critics of Keynesian Economics; Keynes’s Finance Motive; Keynesian Revisions; Keynes After Thirty Years (with Special Reference to the United States); Keynes and the Keynesians: A Suggested Interpretation; Keynes and the Monetarists; Soviet Views on Keynes: A Review Article Surveying the Literature; Was Keynes a ‘ Keynesian’ ? A Review Article. Volume IV: Section Three continued: Keynesian Economic Analysis Keynes and Today’s Establishment in Economic Theory: A View G.L.S.; The Keynesian Diversion; Kuhnian Scientific Revolutions and the Keynesian Revolution; Keynes and Leijonhufvud; A Contribution to the Criticism of Keynes and Keynesianism; Keynes, Inflation and Money Illusion; Keynes and US Keynesianism: A Lack of Historical Perspective and the Decline of the New Economics; The Keynesian Light that Failed; An Essay on Post-Keynesian Theory: A New Paradigm in Economics; ‘Uncertainty’ and the Keynesian Revolution ; The Keynesian Paradigm and Economic Policy ; Economic Methodology in the Face of Uncertainty: The Modelling Methods of Keynes and the Post-Keynesians ; Professor Hicks and the Keynesians; Keynes’ Employment Function Reexamined; Keynesian Economics: The Search for First Principles; Institutionalism, Keynes and the Real World; From Pre-Keynes to Post-Keynes; How Dead is Keynes? The Financial Instability Hypothesis: An Interpretation of Keynes and an Alternative to ‘Standard’; The Nature of the Keynesian Revolution: A Reassessment ; Keynes and the Multiplier; Keynesian Economics, Equilibrium and Time; Keynes and Equilibrium Economics; Patinkin, Keynes, and Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis; Keynes’ Aggregate Supply Function: A Plea for Common Sense; Has Keynes Failed? Keynes and the Steady State Economy; Keynes as New Dawn; From Post-Keynes to Pre-Keynes; Comment on Professor Lemer’s Paper: A Marxist View; Hicks’s Contribution to Keynesian Economics; On Coddington’s Interpretation: A Reply; On Keynes, Policy, and Theory — A Grumble; Marx, Keynes and the Possibility of Crisis; Keynes’s ‘Finance’ Demand for Liquidity, Robertson’s Loanable Funds Theory, and Friedman’s Monetarism; Post-Keynesian Economics: A Promise That Bounced? On Keynesian Economics and the Economics of the Post-Keynesians; Post-Keynesian Economic Theory: An Overview and Evaluation; Post-Keynesian Economics, Abba Lemer, and His Critics; The Microfoundations of Keynes’s Aggregate Supply and Expected Demand Analysis.

    Biography

    John Cummingham Wood