Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians: A 'Revolution in Economics' to be Accomplished (Federico Caffe Lectures) - Softcover

Pasinetti, Luigi L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521107725 ISBN 13: 9780521107723

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

What was the Keynesian revolution in economics? Why did it not succeed to the extent that Keynes and his close pupils had hoped for? Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians addresses these and other questions by tracing the historical development of Keynesian economics. The book is split into three parts. Part I contains the author's Caffè Lectures on Keynes's 'unaccomplished revolution'. Part II is a series of biographical essays where the author, himself a witness and participant of the group on which he writes, presents the successful and unsuccessful endeavours of Keynes's most important pupils: Richard Kahn, Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, Pierro Sraffa and Richard Goodwin. Part III of the book looks to the future by developing a conceptual analytical framework that makes sense of Keynes's 'revolution in economics', discussing the many ways in which the Keynesian way of doing economics is incompatible with the neoclassical tradition.

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Book Description

What was the Keynesian revolution in economics? Why did it not succeed to the extent that Keynes and his close pupils hoped for? Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians addresses these and other questions and attempts to defend Keynesian economics as a viable alternative to mainstream economics.

About the Author

Luigi L. Pasinetti is Professor Emeritus at the Universit... Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy. He was a student of Pierro Sraffa and a leading member of the second generation of Cambridge Keynesians.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521107725
• ISBN 13: 9780521107723
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 412