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Subject(s)

• Keynesian economics [Browse]
• Keynes, John Maynard 1883-1946 [Browse]
• United States—Economic conditions—1945- [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 90 [More in this series]

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

• Introduction : why Keynes matters
• Keynes's legacy, 70 years later
• The three pillars of Keynes's doctrines
• Keynes under attack
• An education in economics
• Three signposts
• Fault lines in the American economy
• A half-century of aggregate demand and output
• The third signpost : employment and unemployment
• Types of unemployment
• Consumer demand and where it leads
• Connections
• The propensity to consume
• Money and liquidity-preference
• A web of relationships
• Trends
• Footnote on the spectrum of interest rates
• Investment demand and where it leads
• Investment supply : where the money comes from
• Investment demand : putting the money to work
• Expectations
• The rate of interest
• A digression on three types of price
• Four periods of economic activity
• What should the government be doing?
• American economic policy during the 1930s
• The travails of understanding government statistics
• External trade and its complications
• Did the deficits have any effect?
• Did Keynes get it right?
• Floating on an ocean of expectations
• The psychology of recession
• How do businesses grow?
• The psychology of recovery
• The prosperous years since 1945
• Keynes the man
• Social class and the British : a digression
• The leap into the top 5 percent
• Act I : early promise, early fulfillment
• Act II : a continuous process of intellectual development
• Versailles and after
• Twenty years of guerilla infighting
• The troubles of the 1920s
• The Gold Standard and the forces of financial conservatism
• The Great Depression
• Keynes, England and the world
• An intimation of mortality
• The approach of World War Two
• Guru becomes man of action
• Keynes as Treasury ambassador
• Bringing an end to economic warfare
• The Employment Policy White Paper
• Keynes's last contribution
• Keynes the prophet.

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ISBN

• 9780415773027 (hbk.)
• 0415773024 (hbk.)
• 9780203939819 (ebk.)
• 0203939816 (ebk.)

LCCN

2007008675

OCLC

85814023

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