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This note examines A. C. Pigou's views on the practical issue of high unemployment in the 1920s. In his Industrial … Fluctuations, Pigou emphasized that the monetary aspect of business cycles was much more important to fluctuations in unemployment … attributed to the failure of money wage adjustment. I argue that, on balance, Pigou attached greater importance to monetary …
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This study utilises the distinction between ophelimity and utility to contrast Pareto's and Pigou's divergent …
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This article aims at understanding Coase's apparently paradoxical attitude towards his eponym 'theorem'. On the one hand, he judges as excessive the attention devoted to an assertion that makes the assumption of zero transaction costs. On the other, he has never stopped reasserting its largely...
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discontinuity, the conceptual structures of Marshall's and Keynes' conceptions of the determinants of investment are analysed and …
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In this paper I evaluate the logical consistency of Patinkin's claim that involuntary unemployment can result from slow speed of adjustment. I argue that Patinkin's argument is flawed because of an unjustified breach of continuity in the trade technology assumption between the microeconomic and...
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The present paper argues that Keynes's theory of aggregate employment assumes perfect competition (understood as price … capital-goods. The degree of competition, to which Keynes makes a single cryptic reference, refers to the social and … institutional obstacles to the free movement of resources, associated mainly with closed shops of entrepreneurs and workers. Keynes …
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College. Moreover, the relationship with his fellow economists in Cambridge, in particular Keynes, Kahn, Kaldor and Joan …
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Keynes's work on India before the First World War concentrated on analysis of the gold exchange standard and the … Keynes's first job as an applied economist. Although neglected by Keynesian scholarship, this learning by doing experience is …
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Some authors pointed to a realist orientation in Keynes's thought. However, since 'realism' is a wide and sometimes … equivocal term, one may ask what kind of realism Keynes's realism is. This paper argues that Keynes held to an ontological … Keynes's thought, the meaning and evolution of which is explained. …
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and employment. Second, he rejected Keynes's liquidity preference and maintained that only in an 'extreme case' might it … be said that Keynes's theory of the rate of interest is valid. Although he correctly identified the gist of Keynes …
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