Shackle's attempt to completely redefine Keynes's definition of uncertainty in chapter 12 of the General Theory, which was that uncertainty is an inverse function of the weight of the evidence as discussed in chapters 6 and 26 of the A Treatise on Probability, as unknowledge (no knowledge of the...

F. Modigliani presented a special case of Keynes's General Theory result in 1944 in his “Liquidity Preference and the Theory of Interest and Money”. Modigliani sought to provide the IS-LM model of Hicks's 1937 Econometrica interpretation of Keynes's chapter 15 IS-LM model with microeconomic...

J M Keynes engaged in correspondence over the IS-LM model contained in chapter 15 of the General Theory with R. Harrod and J Hicks in 1937. Keynes had no major objections. How could he? How could Keynes object to interpretations concerning his own model of IS LM in the General Theory, as laid...

J. M. Keynes versus D. Robertson in 1936-37 pits two opponents, one, J. M. Keynes, a highly skilled, sophisticated, mathematically advanced thinker against another, D. Robertson, who doesn't have even an elementary background in mathematics at the grammar school level. Basically, the...

Nevile writes that : “Thus, it is of considerable interest to speculate on what Keynes would have thought about the way ISLM became identified as "Keynesian" economics for most of the economics profession. We know, of course, what his first reaction to ISLM was in...

A.Hansen essentially went wrong in his evaluation of Keynes's work in the General Theory (GT;1936) that dealt with the Liquidity Preference function in chapters 13,14,15,and 21.His basic error occurs when he evaluates Keynes's chapter 14 analysis on pp.179-183 that dealt with the fact that the...

The myth or story regarding the creation of the IS-LM model in the economics profession goes something like this. Keynes correctly showed in the General Theory that you could not specify the rate of interest just from the supply of savings and demand for investment schedules alone because this...