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We start with Maynard Keynes’s central ideas.† We then discuss the strands that emerged in the work of others, some contemporaries, some followers, some agreeing and extending, others disagreeing and/ or returning to ideas Keynes sloughed off or played down. The General Theory is the natural starting point. We trace developments from and reactions to it, especially by people who were associated, at least for part of their working lives, with Cambridge, England. In the concluding paragraphs, we briefly discuss the contributions of those not geographically located in Cambridge who nevertheless worked within the tradition of Keynes and the Cambridge School.
Originally published as chapter 22 of Warren J. Samuels, Jeff E. Biddle and John B. Davis (eds), A Companion to the History of Economic Thought, Malden, USA, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp. 343–59.
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Kerr, P., Harcourt, G.C. (2012). Keynes and the Cambridge School (2003). In: On Skidelsky’s Keynes and Other Essays. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230348646_12
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