The Economics of Keynes in Historical Context: An Intellectual History of the General Theory

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Motivation: Approaching the General Theory Historically....Pages 3-15
Methodological Stance: The Marshallian Structure of the General Theory....Pages 16-24
Overview....Pages 25-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Introduction: Keynes, the General Theory and the Labor Market....Pages 35-39
The “Late Victorian” Intellectual Context of Marshall’s Labor Market Views....Pages 40-52
The Treatment of Labor Markets in Marshallian Economics....Pages 53-70
Keynes and the Labor Market....Pages 71-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Looking Backward from the General Theory: On the Historical Origins of Keynes’s Financial Market Views....Pages 95-106
Stock Equilibrium in Asset Markets and “The Folly of Amateur Speculators”: The Marshallian Setting....Pages 107-125
The Evolution of Keynes’s Views on Asset Markets and Speculation....Pages 126-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
The Development of Cambridge Monetary Thought 1870–1935....Pages 155-177
Keynes’s Development as a Cambridge Monetary Theorist....Pages 178-212
Sraffa and Hayek on “Own-Rates of Interest”....Pages 213-236
Keynes: “The Essential Properties of Interest and Money”....Pages 237-279
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
“Natural Rate” Mutations: Keynes, Leijonhufvud and the Wicksell Connection....Pages 283-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-357