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- From: Robert.Vienneau@launchpad.unc.edu (Robert Vienneau)
- Subject: Re: Inflation
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- Summary: Reading list on Keynes
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:17:32 GMT
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- david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Michael Wright) writes:
- > Robert.Vienneau@launchpad.unc.edu (Robert Vienneau) writes:
- >|...Academic economists, for the most part, have been blind and deaf to the
- >|GT. They created an equilibrium IS-LM model that ignores both the labor
- >|market and prices.
- >I think this is changing as we speak. Recent articles in the American
- >Economic Review, the QJE, and Mankiw and Romer's new book
- >"New-Keynesian Economics" have been reviving some of the more
- >interesting ideas of the GT, and I think Diamond (1982) was one of the
- >first to get multiple equilibriam driven by changes in expectations of
- >future investment. (and consumption for that matter)...
- > All comments are mine---(David Wright)
- > david@cats.ucsc.edu.
-
- Sorry, David, but from my limited knowledge about it, "New Keynesian
- Economics" does not seem promising, judged from the standpoint of a
- formalization of a historically accurate interpretation of the General
- Theory. From what I understand, New Keynesians adopt rational
- expectations assumptions with the change that not all markets need
- clear. Instead "rationing" or some such assumption is introduced in some
- markets. This is still a model of perfect "certainty," as defined by
- Keynes.
-
- Instead of clarifying what Keynes meant by uncertainty, I'll present a
- reading list:
-
- A. Asimakopulos, "Keynes's General Theory and Accumulation," Cambridge
- University Press, 1991. (Paul Davidson says this is too Kaleckian to
- be totally accurate.)
-
- Victoria Chick, "Macroeconomics after Keynes: A Reconsideration of the
- General Theory," MIT Press, 1983. (Very good introductory text.)
-
- Hyman Minsky, "John Maynard Keynes," Columbia University Press, 1975.
- (Of the "good guys" here, I have absorbed this book least.)
-
- Alessandro Vercelli, "Methodological Foundations of Macroeconomics:
- Keynes & Lucas," Cambridge University Press, 1991.
-
- Many positions have been adopted in the longstanding argument about what
- Keynes "really meant." The position I'm adopting, less dogmatically than
- I may sound, needs development and formalization. Here's some other
- positions:
-
- Alan Coddington, "Keynesian Economics: The Search for First
- Principles, Aleen and Unwin, 1983. (Interesting survey of some positions.
- I don't remember my final judgement on this book. I lean towards his
- "Keynesian fundamentalism," while striving to be less nihilistic.)
-
- Axel Leijonhufvud, "On Keynesian Economics and the Economics of
- Keynes," Oxford Univeristy Press, 1968. (Bad history, I claim.
- Interesting economics in its own right. Important in bringing
- arguments over Keynes to greater notorietory (sp?).)
-
- Murray Milgate, "Capital and Value"?, ???, 198?. (With emphasis on the
- long run, bad history. Of independent importance in the development of
- "Neoricardian Keynesianism.")
-
- David McCord Wright, "The Keynesian System," Fordham University Press,
- 1962. (Old fashioned "bastard Keynesianism," I include this for your
- amusement, David.)
- Robert Vienneau
-
- P.S. Any private mail to above address should include a return address
- in the text. I do not read mail at that address very often, so patience
- is also necessary.
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- Once one of his followers told Keynes that it was hard to defend him
- when he kept changing his position. His reply? "When I am shown I am
- wrong, I change my mind. What do you do?"
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