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Getting Rid of Keynes? A Reflection on the Recent History of Macroeconomics

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Keynes’s General Theory After Seventy Years

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The title of this chapter springs from the obvious observation that the days when macroeconomics and Keynesianism were part and parcel of each other are gone. My aim in this chapter is to reflect on this process of de-Keynesianisation.

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    Robert W. Dimand (Professor of Economics and Adjunct Professor) (Professor of Economics and Adjunct Professor)

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    Robert W. Dimand (Professor of Economics and Adjunct Professor) (Professor of Economics and Adjunct Professor)

  3. Columbia University, USA

    Robert A. Mundell (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  4. University of Siena, Italy

    Alessandro Vercelli (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

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Vroey, M.D. (2010). Getting Rid of Keynes? A Reflection on the Recent History of Macroeconomics. In: Dimand, R.W., Mundell, R.A., Vercelli, A. (eds) Keynes’s General Theory After Seventy Years. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230276147_11

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