Revisiting Keynes : economic possibilities for our grandchildren / / edited by Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.15/6
• Soggetto topico: Keynesian economics
• Soggetto non controllato: ECONOMICS/Trade & Development; ECONOMICS/Labor Studies
• Persona (resp. second.): PecchiLorenzo <1957->; PigaGustavo <1964->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents ; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren: A Twenty-first Century Perspective; 1 Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930); 2 Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren 75 Years After: A Global Perspective; 3 Toward a General Theory of Consumerism: Reflections on Keynes's Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren; 4 Whose Grandchildren?; 5 Corporatism and Keynes: His Philosophy of Growth; 6 Back to the Future with Keynes; 7 Spreading the Bread Thin on the Butter; 8 Economic Well-being in a Historical Context ; 9 Why Do We Work More Than Keynes Expected?10 Context Is More Important Than Keynes Realized; 11 The End of (Economic) History; 12 All the Interesting Questions, Almost All the Wrong Reasons; 13 Why Keynes Underestimated Consumption and Overestimated Leisure for the Long Run; 14 What Is Wrong in Keynes's Prophecy? How the End of Economics Turned into the Rise of the Economics of Social Responsibility; 15 Really Thinking Long Run: Keynes's Other Masterpiece; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Leading economists revisit a provocative essay by John Maynard Keynes, debating Keynes's vision of growth, inequality, work leisure, entrepreneurship, consumerism, and the search for happiness in the twenty-first century.
• Titolo autorizzato: Revisiting Keynes
• ISBN: 0-262-31175-5; 0-262-28133-3; 1-4356-6537-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782113003321
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