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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797279903321

Autore

Ventelou Bruno

Titolo

Millennial Keynes : an introduction to the origin, development, and later currents of Keynesian thought / / Bruno Ventelou ; translated and edited, with and introduction by Gregory P. Nowell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-315-70239-8

1-317-46471-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NowellGregory P <1954-> (Gregory Patrick)

Disciplina

330.15/6

Soggetti

Keynesian economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2005 by M.E. Sharpe.

Translation of: Lire Keynes et le comprendre.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Keynesian Economics and the American Polity""; ""The Social Security Debate and the Emergence of Anti-Keynesian Political Leadership""; ""Environmental Politics""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 1. Keynes: An Activist's Life""; ""Keynes's Childhood, His Studies, His Clubs""; ""Keynes's Professional Life""; ""Government Posts and Feckless Negotiations""; ""Keynes's Political Engagements: The Manifestos, the Pamphlets, and the Economic History of the 1920s and 1930s""

""Conclusion""""Chapter 2. Economic Thought on the Eve of the General Theory""; ""The English Tradition of Partial Equilibrium Theory""; ""Alfred Marshall and Sectors of Economic Activity""; ""The Role of Time in Marshall's Principles""; ""Marshall's Theoretical Dead Ends: The Very Long Period, the Question of Returns to Scale, and Sraffa's Critique""; ""Arthur Cecil Pigou: The Real Balance Effect""; ""Marshall and Pigou's Monetary Theory: Macroeconomics and the Real Balance Effect ""; ""Pigou's Theory of Unemployment""; ""The General Equilibrium Perspective""

""Leon Walras and Interdependence""""General Equilibrium Theory: Its Intrinsic Logic""; ""General Equilibrium: A Host of Problems""; ""Irving Fisher, Time, and Money in the Theory of General Equilibrium"";



""Money in the Theory of General Equilibrium""; ""Time in General Equilibrium Theory: The Loanable Funds Market""; ""Conclusion: Keynes's Intellectual Culture""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 3. Keynes Before the General Theory""; ""The Treatise on Money""; ""The Analysis of Economic Fluctuations""; ""The Paradox of the Indirect Effect""; ""The Credit Cycle""

""Mathematics and the Treatise on Money""""Definitions, Accounting Equations, the Fundamental Equation""; ""Results of the Fundamental Equation""; ""The Fundamental Equation: An Error?""; ""Conclusion: From the Treatise on Money to the General Theory""; ""What Premises Did Keynes Have to Give Up?""; ""What Was Left of the Treatise?""; ""The Treatise on Probability""; ""The Nature of Chance: The Impossibility of the "Frequentist Position"""; ""The Urn Example: How We Experience Real Events, from Risk to Uncertainty""; ""The Distinction Between Probability and Weight""

""The Uncertain and the Unknown""""Keynes's Position on Logical Probability""; ""Probability as an Expression of Weak Logic""; ""Rules for Calculating Logical Probabilities""; ""The Relevance and Methodological Value of a Logical Position""; ""Russell, Wittgenstein, Keynes""; ""Keynes, Ramsey, and Savage""; ""Methodological Impact""; ""Conclusion: A Simplified Equation""; ""Notes""; ""Chapter 4. The General Theory (1): A Reader's Guide""; ""The Labor Market: Point of Departure for Keynes's Causal Framework""; ""The Postulates of the Classical Economics""; ""The Classical Position""

""Keynes's Position: Involuntary Unemployment""