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The Economics of Keynes in Historical Context

An Intellectual History of the General Theory

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  • © 2006

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  1. Michael S. Lawlor

    1. Wake Forest University, USA

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introductory Material: Motivation, Method and Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Motivation: Approaching the General Theory Historically

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      Pages 3-15

    3. Methodological Stance: The Marshallian Structure of the General Theory

      • Michael S. Lawlor
      Pages 16-24

    4. Overview

      • Michael S. Lawlor
      Pages 25-32

  3. Keynes, Cambridge and the Economics of Employment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Introduction: Keynes, the General Theory and the Labor Market

      • Michael S. Lawlor
      Pages 35-39

    3. The “Late Victorian” Intellectual Context of Marshall’s Labor Market Views

      • Michael S. Lawlor
      Pages 40-52

    4. The Treatment of Labor Markets in Marshallian Economics

      • Michael S. Lawlor
      Pages 53-70

    5. Keynes and the Labor Market

      • Michael S. Lawlor
      Pages 71-91

  5. “Shifting Equilibria” in a Monetary Economy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. The Development of Cambridge Monetary Thought 1870–1935

      • Michael S. Lawlor
      Pages 155-177

    3. Keynes’s Development as a Cambridge Monetary Theorist

      • Michael S. Lawlor
      Pages 178-212

    4. Sraffa and Hayek on “Own-Rates of Interest”

      • Michael S. Lawlor
      Pages 213-236

    5. Keynes: “The Essential Properties of Interest and Money”

      • Michael S. Lawlor
      Pages 237-279

  6. Conclusion: A Theory of a Monetary Economy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-281
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About this book

This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the development of Keynes's economic ideas in the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money , using archival material, the historical record of the economics of Keynes's time and place and the scholarship available on Keynes's biography and philosophy.

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  • Wake Forest University, USA

    Michael S. Lawlor

About the author

MICHAEL S. LAWLOR is Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. He holds a joint appointment at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences. He has held visiting appointments in the Department of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Duke University and is a Life Member of Clare-Hall, Cambridge.

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