: P. Davidson
: John Maynard Keynes
: Palgrave Macmillan
: 9780230235472
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his book looks at the life of Keynes leading up to the writing of his seminal General Theory , examines the General Theory in detail, and explores how it differs from classical theory. The impact of Keynes's work on the economy postwar and up to the present day is also assessed.

PAUL DAVIDSON is Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research, Bernard Schwartz Center For Economic Policy Analysis, USA. He has previously held Professorships at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University and the University of Tennessee. He is Editor of theJournal of Post Keynesian Economics, a former member of Brookings Economics Panel, and is the author, co-author or editor of twenty-two books and more than 200 articles. His books includeMoney and the Real World,Post Keynesian Macroeconomic Theory,International Money and the Real World: Economics for a Civilized Society, andFinancial Markets, Money and the Real World.
Cover1
John Maynard Keynes4
Contents8
List of Figures11
Preface14
1 An Introduction to Keynes and His Revolutionary Views16
2 How the Great War and Its Aftermath Affected Keynes’s Thinking22
3 Keynes’s Middle Way: Liberalism is Truly a New Way28
4 The Before and After of Keynes’s General Theory33
5 The Conceptual Difference between Keynes’s General Theory and Classical Theory — Savings and Liquidity53
6 Further Differentiating Keynes’s Aggregate Demand Function73
7 The Importance of Money, Contracts, and Liquid Financial Markets90
8 World War II and the Postwar Open Economies System131
9 Classical Trade Theory versus Keynes’s General Theory of International Trade and International Payments141
10 Reforming the World’s Money160
11 Inflation175
12 Keynes’s Revolution: The Evidence Showing Who Killed Cock Robin184
Postscript:1 The Great Financial Crisis of 2008–2009205
Notes218
Bibliography229
Index235