The conventional wisdom about Keynes's Principle of Effective Demand is that it states something about quantities. It is widely held that the Principle determines the levels of output and employment in a world not governed by Say's Law. This paper argues that the Principle of Effective Demand...

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...

Keynes's essay "Relative Movements of Real Wages and Output" is widely believed to be an important amendment to his General Theory because, in this essay, Keynes relaxed his core assumption of decreasing marginal returns to labour. Non-decreasing marginal returns, however, do not sit comfortably...