A review essay on Basil John Moore, Shaking the Invisible Hand : Complexity, Endogenous Money and Exogenous Interest Rates, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2006, pp. xxvi+556.

Paper takes Toshiaki Hirai’s (2007) Keynes’s Theoretical Development: From the Tract to the General Theory as motivation for a re-evaluation of the transition between the Treatise and General Theory. Hirai’s work is important because he frees the transition from the ‘Keynesian’...

This history of National Accounts in Britain is done with two specific considerations in mind. First, the role of the economist John Maynard Keynes-as theoretician, compiler, supporter and user-is addressed. This role is substantial and has been greatly misunderstood or misrepresented by a large...

Proposes an extended quality framework for meeting commitments to monitor closely quarterly estimates and publish material on specific data setsThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) regularly monitors and publishes indicators of the quality of its statistics. However, when publishing plans...

This paper seeks to bolster the view that Keynes was a monetary economist concerned primarily with monetary and not fiscal policy. His most fundamental policy conclusion for national economies was that the authorities could control the long-term rate of interest and should do so to promote...

Details the measurement and role of government procurement in the UK National Accounts, including existing data methodcollections, and identifies specific initiatives.This article details the measurement and role of government procurement in the UK National Accounts. The needfor an accurate...

Introduces the new journal and provides a retrospective review of compendia publications of official statistics and analysis.Since its first publication in 1953, Economic Trends and its companion labour market publications have recordedchanges to the UK economy and labour market. In this new...