In this book, Jörg Bibow illustrates how Keynes' methodology inspired his economic theorizing and how this led to fundamental insights concerning the role of money that contrasted with orthodox closed-system modelling

This chapter explores Keynes’s monetary thought with a focus on financial instability and crises. Keynes’s early monetary work, Indian Currency and Finance (1913), shows his keen concerns for financial instabilities and his appreciation of central banks’ lender-of-last-resort role. In his...

It is widely perceived that today's conventional monetary wisdom, and the common practice of monetary policy based thereupon, is essentially "monetarist" by nature, if not by name. One objective of this paper is to assess whether monetarism has had a lasting effect on the theory and practice of...