Keynes in Action

Truth and Expediency in Public Policy
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-009-25501-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

John Maynard Keynes died in 1946 but his ideas and his example remain relevant today. In this distinctive new account, Peter Clarke shows how Keynes's own career was not simply that of an academic economist, nor that of a modern policy advisor. Though rightly credited for reshaping economic theory, Keynes's influence was more broadly based and is assessed here in a rounded historical, political and cultural context. Peter Clarke re-examines the full trajectory of Keynes's public career from his role in Paris over the Versailles Treaty to Bretton Woods. He reveals how Keynes's insights as an economic theorist were rooted in his wider intellectual and cultural milieu including Bloomsbury and his friendship with Virginia Woolf as well as his involvement in government business. Keynes in Action uncovers a much more pragmatic Keynes whose concept of 'truth' needs to be interpreted in tension with an acknowledgement of 'expediency' in implementing public policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. What really happened at Paris? Keynes and Dulles; 2. What really happened at Paris? The war guilt clause; 3. 'You are very famous, Maynard': Keynes and the Manchester Guardian; 4. The truth about Lloyd George: four perspectives; 5. Yielding to Ramsey: probability revisited; 6. Yielding to realities: golden rules?; 7. Truths between friends: Cambridge and economics; 8. Truths between friends: Bloomsbury and politics; 9. The road to Bretton Woods: expediency revisited; Conclusion: pragmatic and dogmatic Keynesianism.

Über Autor(innen)

Clarke, Peter
Peter Clarke was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989. His previous publications include Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000 (2004), The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt (2017) and studies on John Maynard Keynes including The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924–1936 (1988) and Keynes (2009).