Keynes and the Modern World

This volume presents the proceedings of the major conference held to celebrate the centenary of the birth of John Maynard Keynes at King's College, Cambridge.

David Worswick (Author), James Trevithick (Author)

9780521108027, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 February 2009

284 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.42 kg

This volume presents the proceedings of the major conference held to celebrate the centenary of the birth of John Maynard Keynes at King's College, Cambridge. It brings together major international figures in economics and looks at Keynesian economics and the relevance of Keyne's ideas today. In addition to the main speakers and discussants, summaries of the discussions on each paper and memoirs of Maynard Keynes from Sir Austin Robinson, Richard Braithwaite and James Meade are also included.

1. Keynesian economics after fifty years Nicholas Kaldor, James Tobin and A. P. Thirlwall
2. On Keynes and monetarism Allan H. Meltzer, F. H. Hahn and C. A. E. Goodhart
3. Keynes and the international economic order John Williamson, R. Dornbusch and Sidney Dell
4. Keynes and the management of real national income and expenditure Wynne Godley, E. Malinvaud and Robert M. Solow
5. What would Keynes have thought of rational expectations? Axel Leijonhufvud, Luigi L. Pasinetti and Paul A. Samuelson
6. The demand-side economic of inflation Tibor Scitovsky, A. J. Brown and J. Flemming
7. Memoirs of Maynard Keynes Sir Austin Robinson, Richard Braithwaite and James Meade.

Subject Areas: Economic theory & philosophy [KCA]