Now there is no part of our economic system which works so badly as our monetary and credit arrangements; none where the results of bad working are so disastrous socially; and none where it is easier to propose a scientific solution. (J. M. Keynes: Speech to the Liberal Party, December 1923, The...

In der Makroökonomik werden Liquiditätsfallen ohne Mikrofundierung als existent angenommen und die Japan-Krise hat Liquiditätsfallen wieder zum Diskussionsthema gemacht. Deshalb wird die Frage der Existenz von Liquiditätsfallen hier portfolio-theoretisch untersucht im Rahmen eines...

The sharp exchanges that Keynes had with some of his critics on the loanable funds theory made it harder to appreciate the degree to which his thought was continuous with the tradition of monetary analysis that emanates from Wicksell, of which Keynes's A Treatise on Money was a part. In the...

This paper revisits Keynes's liquidity preference theory as it evolved from the Treatise on Money to The General Theory and after, with a view of assessing the theory's ongoing relevance and applicability to issues of both monetary theory and policy. Contrary to the neoclassical "special case"...

This article is an attempt to formalize Chapter 17 of Keynes's General Theory using a continuous dynamic optimization model with perfect foresight. I Present two subjective interest rates: the time preference rate and the liquidity premuim that, respectively, govern the consumption-saving and...

The American Post Keynesians - those who attach importance to the "Big P" and the absence of a dash between "post" and "Keynesian" - claim to be Keynes's most literal interpreters, or the "truest" Keynesians (HOLT ET AL., 1998, p. 17). This paper compares the Post Keynesian interpretation of the...

This paper will discuss how the Financial Crisis of 2008 has thrown neoliberalism into a deep legitimation crisis. Over the past four decades the neoliberal ethic of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher has permeated American life both public and private. The principles of the laissez faire...

In 1936, Keynes published The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, one of the most influential books in economics of the twentieth century. With this publication, Keynes has confused and will continue to confuse generations of economists as to what classical economics means. This...

Keynes’s mathematical economics analysis of the Aggregate Supply Function and the Aggregate Supply Curve contained in footnote two on p.55 of the General Theory is correct with the exception of a very minor error that can easily be spotted by anyone who has worked through Keynes’s chapter 20...