The State of Interpretation of Keynes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: The Interpretation of Keynes’s Work

   • John Davis

   Pages 1-11

3. Changes in Output in Keynes’s Treatise on Money ¹

   • Edward J. Amadeo

   Pages 13-26

4. Edward Amadeo’s Contributions to the Interpretation of Keynes’s Economics

   • R. E. Prasch

   Pages 27-37

5. The Own-Rates Framework as An Interpretation of The General Theory: A Suggestion for Complicating the Keynesian Theory of Money

   • Michael Syron Lawlor

   Pages 39-90

6. Michael Lawlor’s Own-Rates Interpretation of the General Theory

   • Colin Rogers

   Pages 91-102

7. Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution

   • Bradley W. Bateman

   Pages 103-121

8. Expectations, Confidence and the Keynesian Revolution

   • Robert W. Dimand

   Pages 123-129

9. Keynes’s Vision: Method, Analysis and “Tactics”

   • G. C. Harcourt, C. Sardoni

   Pages 131-152

10. Keynes’s: Vision and Tactics

    • Allin Cottrell

    Pages 153-165

11. Aspects of J. M. Keynes’s Vision and Conceptualized Reality

    • Hans E. Jensen

    Pages 167-204

12. J. M. Keynes’s Vision and Conceptualized Reality: What Endures?

    • John E. Elliott

    Pages 205-221

13. Keynes’s Philosophical Thinking

    • John B. Davis

    Pages 223-244

14. The Keynesian Probability-Relation: In Search of a Substitute

    • Jochen Runde

    Pages 245-251

15. Back Matter

    Pages 253-257

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Interest in John Maynard Keynes's economic, political and philosophical thinking has undergone a tremendous revival in the last decade. The essays and comments collected in this volume were written on a set of themes representative of the current state of interpretation of Keynes's thinking. Some of the topics investigated have received much attention in the past, and some are of more recent interest. In the former category are topics on standard issues in the interpretation of Keynes's economics: the transition in Keynes's thinking from the The Treatise on Money to The General Theory, the nature of the argument in The General Theory, and Keynes's economic policy views. The latter category introduces themes of a wider nature, and includes two papers on Keynes's vision and one on Keynes's philosophical thinking.
The strategy adopted in the selection of topics was to review the debates over Keynes's economics from fresh perspectives, and then go on to supply discussions of broader issues concerning the nature of Keynes as a thinker. This collection as a whole adds to our general understanding of Keynes's work, and contributes to the current revival of interest in Keynes.

• John Maynard Keynes
• Keynes
• Policy
• Revolution
• economic policy
• economics
• strategy

• Economics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA

  John B. Davis

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