Keynes’s General Theory

Edited by Thomas Cate, Professor of Economics (Emeritus), Northern Kentucky University, US

• Contents:In Memory of Gilles DostalerRobert W. DimandEditor’s IntroductionThomas CatePART I: THE GENERAL THEORY AND FUNDAMENTAL UNCERTAINTY1. On Keynes’s Seminal Innovation and Related Essential Features: Revisiting the Notion of Equilibrium in The General TheoryAngel Asensio2. Keynes, the Neglected TheoristM.G. Hayes3. Keynes’s Economic Theory – Judgement under UncertaintyElke MuchlinskiPART II: THE GENERAL THEORY AND THE HISTORY OF MACROECONOMICS4. Dead or Alive? The Ebbs and Flows of Keynesianism Over the History of MacroeconomicsMichel DeVroey5. The Roots of the Present are in the Past: The Relation of Postwar Developments in Macroeconomics to Interwar Business Cycle and Monetary TheoryRobert W. Dimand6. Keynes’s General Theory, the Quantity Theory of Money and Monetary PolicyPeter Docherty7. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money after 75 Years: The Importance of Being in the Right Place at the Right TimeMatthew N. Luzzetti and Lee E. Ohanian8. The impact of The General Theory on Economic Theory and the Development of Public Policies: A Nested Vision of Keynes’s Ideas with the Classical Vision through a Panoramic View of his WorksLall Ramrattan and Michael SzenbergPART III: THE GENERAL THEORY AND FRIEDMAN, KALDOR, MARX AND SRAFFA9. The Right Kind of an Economist: Friedman’s View of KeynesRoger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman10. Keynes after Sraffa and Kaldor: Effective Demand, Accumulation and Productivity GrowthAlcino F. Camara-Neto and Matías Vernengo11. The General Theory, Marx, Marxism and the Soviet UnionGilles DostalerPART IV: THE GENERAL THEORY AND NEW INTERPRETATIONS12. The General Theory: Seventy-Five Years LaterOmar F. Hamouda13. Money’s Endogeneity, Keynes’s General Theory and Beyond Louis-Phillippe Rochon14. Interest and ProfitJohn Smithin15. Keynes after 75 Years: Rethinking Money as a Public MonopolyL. Randall WrayIndex

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