The Keynesian Fallout

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-8039-9277-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Gewicht: 428 g

Rejecting the Keynesian preoccupation with increasing employment in order to fuel demand, this provocative study seeks to reorient the very problematique of macroeconomic research from `cyclical unemployment' to what the author terms `chronic misemployment'. Narindar Singh maintains that Keynes and his followers (the most notable of whom was Paul Samuelson) concentrated on the level of employment to the exclusion of the content of employment. He cites as examples employment in the arms industry and in a wide range of industries which produce goods of doubtful value and which cause pollution. In addition, such activity has engendered consumerist profligacy which compounds the problem. And if Keynes is the theorist of this approach, maintains the author, then Hitler was its most prominent practitioner.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Narindar

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - C T Kurien PART ONE: HITLER - ALIVE AND KICKING Keynes and Hitler Samuelson and Hitler PART TWO: KEYNES - A LIMPING PANGLOSS The Third Crisis The Pangloss Complex Confound Interest Prevarication Pur Sang PART THREE: SAMUELSON - AND SOME OTHER PROBLEMS OF OUR AGE The Illusion of Choice The Uncold War Economics against Life