"'Keynes' Chapter 3 on 'The Principle of Effective Demand'", schreibt Patinkin (1979a, S. 155), "is at one and the same time the most important and the most obscure chapter in the General Theory: most important, because it contains the major innovation of the book…". Und obskur ist es in der...

In 1913 – following a 40-year period during which prices steadily declined for the first 25 years and then rose by 50 percent in the remaining 15 – Irving Fisher presented his compensated dollar plan for stabilizing the price level. This presentation had many puzzling features, starting with...