Keynes, John Maynard(1883–1946)
The English economist John Maynard Keynes, the son of a distinguished Cambridge logician and economist, was one of the most brilliant and influential men of the ...
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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron of Tilton (1883-1946), was an English economist who revolutionized economic theory and policy by linking employment and income to public and private expenditure. He is a...
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In the following excerpt, Gruchy examines Keynes's economic thought at its various levels of analysis—from his theory of output and employment, to his theory of the capitalist order, to ...
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In the following excerpt, Steindl judges the contemporary relevance of Keynes's ideas. Basing his arguments on a discussion of several key topics in the criticism on Keynes, he outlines the mai...
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Economics in the last fifty years has been mainly Keynesian economics, inspired by Keynes' General Theory. Keynes challenged classical theory, the then prevailing orthodoxy in economics. Classi...
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In the following excerpt, Blaug attempts to explain the phenomenal success of the General Theory and the unprecedented rapidity with which Keynes's theories were adopted by professional economi...
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In the following excerpt, Davis discusses Keynes's understanding of economic method in terms of his philosophical beliefs, focusing on his conception of economics as a moral science and his emp...
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In the following excerpt, Skidelsky discusses Keynes's efforts to reconcile his private values with his public duties, focusing on the moral underpinnings of his economic theories. The first vo...
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In the following excerpt on A Treatise on Money, Felix discusses the genesis of the work the weaknesses in its argument, and its contemporary critical reception.
In Keynes's lifetime of inex...
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In the following excerpt, Smithies surveys Keynes's career, commenting on the relationship between his economic theories and his philosophical beliefs, his views on domestic and international e...
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In the following excerpt, which is a translation of chapter five from his study L'oeuvre de John Maynard Keynes, Lambert provides a chronological study of Keynes's writings, portraying t...
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In the following excerpt, Hishiyama maintains that A Treatise on Probability had a direct bearing on the General Theory, particularly with regard to the two essential components of Keynes's pri...
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In the following essay, which was first published in 1971, Galbraith explains how the ideas contained in the General Theory were disseminated and eventually adopted in the United States.
'I...
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In the following essay, Johnson examines the relationship between Keynes's plans for the International Monetary Fund system, established after World War II, and his early economic work specific...
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In the following excerpt, Johnson discusses the nature of Keynes's involvement in British political life and economic policy. Johnson's essay was originally read as a paper on September ...
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In the following excerpt, Moggridge describes the general character of Keynes's thought, his method of approaching economic problems, and his views on the making of public policy.
Before exa...
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In the following excerpt, Kahn examines Keynes's changing attitudes towards the quantity theory of money, as revealed in A Tract on Monetary Reform, A Treatise on Money, and the General Theory....
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British born economist Keynes changed the way economists view the free market. Through his lifetime he battled to bring attention to his ideas, and used every opportunity to make his voice heard, espe...
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Today is Sunday, July 29, the 210th day of 2007. There are 155 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 29, 1981, Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in a resplend...
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American economist and educator (b. July 31, 1912, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
—d. Nov. 16, 2006,
San Francisco, Calif.
), was one of the leading proponents of monetarism in the second half of the 20th ...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
KEYNESIAN TRILLIONS (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles)
President Bush cannot yet claim that he has won the Iraq war.
But his final State of...
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To the Editor:
Presidential primary voters of 2008, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains of delusion.
As Joe Conason indicated in his critique of the G.O.P.’s fear-mongering camp...
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, by Jeffrey Sachs. The Penguin Press, 396 pages, $27.95.
Consider the banality of modern-day evil: As Jeffrey Sachs reminds us in his new bo...
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Hubris and arrogance are too ensconced in Washington for policymakers to be aware of the economic policy trap in which they have placed the U.S. economy. If the subprime mortgage meltdown is half a...
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Lincoln and Jefferson, not to mention Jesus Christ, are still ahead of Franklin D. Roosevelt as compelling, complex figures fated to endure never-ending revisionist biographical inquiry—histo...
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Lincoln and Jefferson, not to mention Jesus Christ, are still ahead of Franklin D. Roosevelt as compelling, complex figures fated to endure never-ending revisionist biographical inquiry—hist...
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The men and women who hold considerable sway over your money sit on the Federal Open Market Committee, whose interest-rate decisions ripple through the economy. A look at this year's voting members...
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John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics, by Richard Parker. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 820 pages, $35.I've heard just about enough from the founding fathers. Over the last dec...
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Keynes, John Maynard (1883–1946)
John Maynard Keynes
Critical Essay by Allan G. Gruchy
John Maynard Keynes
Today in history - July 29
