Abstract
Since Don Patinkin’s article on Keynes appeared in the first edition of The New Palgrave, two major biographies have increased our understanding of Keynes’s life. There has developed a large literature on the relation between his work on probability and his involvement in the Bloomsbury group, and the relation to both of these to his economics. This article reviews and assesses that literature along with more recent work on his economics.
Keywords
- Aggregate demand
- Behaviourial economics
- Clarke, P. F.
- Expectations
- Forced saving
- Gold standard
- Harrod, R. F.
- Induction
- Inflation
- International Monetary Fund
- Keynes and Bloomsbury
- Keynes and philosophy
- Keynes, J. M.
- Liberalism
- Liquidity preference
- Meade, J. E.
- Mill, J. S.
- Moggridge, D.
- Moore, G. E.
- New Keynesian macroeconomics
- Ohlin, B. G.
- Patinkin, D.
- Pigou, A. C.
- Post Keynesian economics
- Probability
- Psychology and economics
- Public works
- Ramsey, F. P.
- Robertson, D.
- Rules of conduct
- Skidelsky, R.
- Statistics and economics
- Stone, J. R. N.
- Subjective probability
- Uncertainty
- Unemployment
- Utilitarianism
- Utility maximization
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Backhouse, R.E., Bateman, B.W. (2018). Keynes, John Maynard (New Perspectives). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2103
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