...Paul B. Trescott The central ideas of Keynes's General Theory were introduced into China soon after its publication in 1936. Yao Qingsan, who had studied in France, made the first known presentation. Numerous persons who had studied in England helped disseminate Keynes's ideas: Michael Lindsay, Fan...

...E. Roy Weintraub Historians’ treatment of John Maynard Keynes’s putative anti-Semitism raises complex historiographic issues. Melvin W. Reder’s 2000 HOPE article “The Anti-Semitism of Some Eminent Economists” considered whether the term ambivalent anti-Semitism could be applied variously to John...

... economists view economics as an instrument of states- craft, a view rather common in Mercantilist days and briefly resurrected by Keynes in 1936. The authors of these essays have done a service to our discipline by calling to our attention the Italian tradition. Bryant College...

...Steven Pressman Bradley W. Bateman and John B. Davis. Brookfield, Vt.: Edward Elgar, 1991. $44.95. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Book Reviews 979 Keynes and Philosophy: Essays on the Origin of Keynes’s Thought. Edited...

... working in the Mamian areas. Rutgers University ALEXANDERBALINKY John Maynard Keynes: a personal biography of the man who revolutionalized capitalism and the way we live. By Charles H. Hession. New York: Mamillan, 1984. Pp. xv, 400. E22.95. John Maynard...

...Tony Aspromourgos This essay examines Keynes’s views on public debt, taking as its point of departure his 1943 confrontation with Abba Lerner on the issue. It also exhaustively considers the wider intellectual relationship between the two men, as well as Keynes’s other commentaries on public debt...

...Vincent Barnett This article examines the potential influence of the work of two psychologists—G. F. Stout and James Sully—on J. M. Keynes’s economic theory. It does so by providing an analysis of aspects of the notes that Keynes made while studying for the Civil Service entrance examination in...

...Michael V. White; Takutoshi Inoue In his 1936 memoir of W. Stanley Jevons, J. M. Keynes argued that Jevons's pronounced hostility to the dominance of J. S. Mill's political economy was due, in large part, to the imposition of Mill's work on Jevons's teaching at Owens College (subsequently the...

...John H. Wood It is not generally realized how little changed monetary theory and the theory and practice of monetary policy are from the time before Keynes’s General Theory . Explanations of business fluctuations by Keynes’s predecessors closely resemble the current literature, notwithstanding...

...Filippo Cesarano John Maynard Keynes put forward a number of proposals to reshape the international monetary system. Although variegated, they do have one characteristic in common—the rejection of freely flexible exchange rates—which, in a sense, is like a prism refracting the different shades of...

...Ho-Po Crystal Wong I examine John Maynard Keynes's struggle with the doctrine of forced saving during the period 1924–36, from when he worked on the Treatise on Money to the completion of his General Theory . I investigate what led Keynes to completely abolish ideas related to forced saving and how...

...Christopher Bliss The paper examines the so-called Cambridge post-Keynesians from the point of view of one who was exposed to them as an undergraduate, with the addition of some mature thoughts. As confirmed by Luigi Pasinetti in his 2007 book Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians: A “Revolution in...

...Roger E. Backhouse; Bradley W. Bateman We analyze Keynes's thoughts on capitalism by focusing on what he wrote on the topic, using the Collected Writings , taken as a whole, together with some unpublished material to tackle three issues: what Keynes meant by capitalism; the fragility of capitalism...

...Joan O'Connell In outlining his theory of economic growth and income distribution, Kaldor made a “logical slip”: while in his model, workers might save, workers' assets were accounted for. Kaldor acknowledged the strong influence of Kalecki and Keynes on his work. What is suggested here is that...

...Nicolò De Vecchi This paper considers Keynes's comments on two essays by Kalecki addressing the effects of three different taxes on national income and employment. Keynes appreciated the highly compressed, clearly shaped, and convincing character of Kalecki's analysis, but sharply criticized his...

...Mauro Boianovsky Henry A. Abbati: Keynes’ Forgotten Precursor; Selected Writings . Edited by Di Gaspare Serena . London : Routledge , 2011 . xxi ; 337 pp. Hardback $160.00 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Boianovsky M. 1996...

...David Collard Keynes and His Contemporaries: Tradition and Enterprise in the Cambridge School of Economics . By Komine Atsushi . Oxford : Routledge , 2014 . xx ; 167 pp. Hardback $138.00 . Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Book Reviews Reinterpreting the...

...Roger E. Backhouse The Political and Economic Thought of the Young Keynes: Liberalism, Markets, and Empire . By Cristiano Carlo . London : Routledge , 2014 . xxii ; 262 pp . Hardback $140.00 . Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 References De Cecco M...

.... 3 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: Routledge. Hayek , F. A. 1994 . Hayek on Hayek . Edited by Stephen Kresge and Leif Wenar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; London: Routledge. Hayek , F. A. 1995 . Contra Keynes and...

..., Keynes and the Social Sciences . New York: Cambridge University Press. Davis , John B. 1994 . Keynes's Philosophical Development . Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press. Lawlor , M. S. 1994 . On the Historical Origins of Keynes's Financial Market Views. In Higgling...