New Perspectives on Keynes

by Cottrell, Allin F.; Lawlor, Michael S.

• ISBN13: 9780822317050
• ISBN10: 0822317052
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Interest in John Maynard Keynes has increased significantly over the past decade with the publication of his collected writings, increased access to his unpublished papers, and the resulting explosion of secondary literature. Responding to this renewed attention, this collection brings together economists and historians of economics with scholars from philosophy and other related fields to reconsider Keynesrs"s work and its legacy. Several of these essays look at Keynes not simply as an economist, but more broadly as a philosopher. Special attention is directed to his views on aesthetics and moral philosophy, as well as his contributions as a probability theorist. The development of the Keynesian heritage is also considered: How did Keynesian ideas become assimilated and domesticated into the mainstream of economic thought-to the point of becoming dominant as the orthodoxy of the economics profession? What was the relationship between postwar British conservatives, Keynesrs"s work, and Britainrs"s relative economic decline? The archivist in charge of Keynesrs"s papers provides an additional vantage point on Keynesrs"s working methods and the broad range of scholars interested in his writings. Finally, all of the essays are followed by a responderrs"s comments, thus providing an exchange of viewpoints.Contributors.A. W. Coats, Allin F. Cottrell, Jacqueline Cox, William Darity, John Davis, Robert Dimand, Peter Groenewegen, Kevin Hoover, Henry E. Kyburg Jr., David Laidler, Michael S. Lawlor, Greg Lilly, D. E. Moggridge, R. M. Ors"Donnell, Kerry Pearce, Jochen Runde, Teddy Seidenfeld, J. D. Tomlinson

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Keynes as a Philosopher	p. 7
References	p. 27
Comment	p. 33
Jeffreys, Fisher, and Keynes Predicting the Third Observation Given the First Two	p. 39
Comment	p. 53
An Unfortunate Alliance: Keynesianism And the Conservatives 1945-1964	p. 61
Comment	p. 87
Keynes on Aesthetics	p. 93
Comment	p. 123
Keynes and Marshall Methodology, Society, and Politics	p. 129
Comment	p. 157
Keynes an Archivist's View	p. 163
Comment	p. 177
After the Revolution: Paul Samuelson And the Textbook Keynesian Model	p. 183
Comment	p. 217
The Diffusion of the Keynesian Revolution: the Young and the Graduate Schools	p. 223
Comment	p. 243
Irving Fisher, J. M. Keynes, and The Transition to Modern Macroeconomics	p. 247
Comment	p. 267
Index	p. 272
Contributors	p. 285
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.