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Keynes and the Post-Keynesians: Arbitary Expectations

In: Theories of Technical Change and Investment

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  • Chidem Kurdas

    (Pennsylvania State University)

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Chapters 11 and 12 of the General Theory contain two different views of investment. Keynes presented the two chapters as complementary, but others have interpreted them as antithetical: Chapter 11 shows us the arithmetic of the marginal efficiency of capital and its relation with interest rates, a matter for actuaries and slide-rules. Chapter 12 reveals the hollowness of all this. The material for the slide-rules is absent, or arbitrary. Investment is an irrational activity, or a non-rational one. Surmise and assumption about what is happening or about to happen are themselves the source of these happenings, men make history in seeking to apprehend it. (Shackle 1983: 130. First published 1967)

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  • Chidem Kurdas, 1994. "Keynes and the Post-Keynesians: Arbitary Expectations," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Theories of Technical Change and Investment, chapter 3, pages 25-57, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-23474-5_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23474-5_3
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