The Cambridge Companion to Keynes

by Edited by Roger E. Backhouse , Bradley W. Bateman

• ISBN13: 9780521600606
• ISBN10: 052160060X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	xi
List of abbreviations	xiii
1 A cunning purchase: the life and work of Maynard Keynes
ROGER E. BACKHOUSE AND BRADLEY W. BATEMAN	1	(18)
2 The Keynesian revolution
ROGER E. BACKHOUSE	19	(20)
3 Keynes and the birth of modern macroeconomics
DAVID LAIDLER	39	(19)
4 Keynes as a Marshallian
AXEL LEIJONHUFVUD	58	(20)
5 Doctor Keynes: economic theory in a diagnostic science
KEVIN D. HOOVER	78	(20)
6 Keynes and British economic policy
GEORGE C. PEDEN	98	(20)
7 Keynes and Cambridge
MARIA CRISTINA MARCUZZO	118	(18)
8 Keynes and his correspondence
D.E. MOGGRIDGE	136	(24)
9 Keynes and philosophers
TIZIANO RAFFAELLI	160	(20)
10 Keynes's political philosophy
SAMUEL BRITTAN	180	(19)
11 Keynes and probability
DONALD GILLIES	199	(18)
12 The art of an ethical life: Keynes and Bloomsbury
CRAUFURD D. GOODWIN	217	(20)
13 Keynes and ethics
THOMAS BALDWIN	237	(20)
14 Keynes between modernism and post-modernism
MATTHIAS KLAES	257	(14)
15 Keynes and Keynesianism
BRADLEY W. BATEMAN	271	(20)
Bibliography	291	(20)
Index	311