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Keynes on method: is economics a moral science?

In: Keynes’s General Theory for Today

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The themes of this important new volume were chosen to mark the 75th anniversary of the publication of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. The distinguished authors concentrate on the relevance of this seminal publication for macroeconomic theory, method and the politics of today. This is particularly pertinent as similarities with the 1930s are striking in terms of unemployment, low growth, financial fragility and the European monetary union resembling the gold standard.

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  • Michael Lainé, 2012. "Keynes on method: is economics a moral science?," Chapters, in: Jesper Jespersen & Mogens Ove Madsen (ed.), Keynes’s General Theory for Today, chapter 4, pages 60-78, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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