John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946

In a series that presents critical appraisals of influential economists from the 17th century to the present day, this four-volume collection of critical assessments on John Maynard Keynes covers the period 1981 to 1989. The literature on Keynes has accelerated in the last decade and its focus of attention has altered out of all recognition compared to the commentaries of the half-century 1936-1981. The secondary literature of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s might be fairly summed up as "trying to make sense of what Keynes meant in "The General Theory". The new literature on the other hand, is largely content to leave this work to one side, and treat his "Treatise on Probability" as his only great work. The burden of recent books and articles about Keynes suggest that rather than assuming a "break" between the early and the late Keynes, there was instead a constant thread of doubt and scepticism about the possibility of rational economic calculations running all through his writings from the beginning. A coherent philosophical vision coloured every word he wrote, a vision that declared war against all manifestations of positivism and empiricism.Blaug, Mark is the author of 'John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946' with ISBN 9781852785109 and ISBN 1852785101.