Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution

• Introduction; 1. An overview; Part I. The Wicksellians: 2. Wicksellian origins; 3. The macrodynamics of the Stockholm school; Part II. The Marshallian Tradition in Britain: 4. Cambridge cycle theory: Lavington, Pigou and Robertson; 5. The monetary element in the Cambridge tradition; 6. The Treatise on Money and related contributions; 7. British discussions of unemployment; Part III. American Analysis of Money and the Cycle: 8. American macroeconomics between World War I and the Depression; 9. American macroeconomics in the early 1930s; Part IV. Keynes, the Classical and IS-LM: 10. The General Theory; 11. The classics and Mr. Keynes; 12. IS-LM and the General Theory; 13. Selective synthesis; References.

"Natura non facit saltum. So said Marshall, and once again he's been proven correct. Without denigrating the very real contributions of John Maynard Keynes, David Laidler demonstrates conclusively that, far from inventing an entirely novel theory to challenge a dead orthodoxy, Keynes fabricated his theory from the ample materials provided by a lively and diverse interwar literature. Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution sets Keynes's work in the theoretical context of its period as no other book has. It is must reading not only for historians of economics but for anyone who wants to understand how modern macroeconomics came to be." Neil Skaggs, Illinois State University