John Maynard Keynes

Makroøkonomisk teori er kunsten at udarbejde en model, som er relevant for forståelsen af den samfundsøkonomi, som vi rent faktisk lever i. (Keynes, 1937) John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946, var det 20. århundredes største og mest anerkendte økonom. Han udviklede teorien for makroøkonomisk analyse og principperne bag nationalregnskabet. Afsættet var krisen i 1930erne. Den lange periode med konstant velstandsstigning i efterkrigstiden gjorde overgangsvist Keynes' makroøkonomiske teorier mindre centrale. Den høje arbejdsløshed og den udeblevne vækst i dette århundrede skabte fornyet interesse for Keynes' makroøkonomiske teori og metode. Denne bog giver baggrunden for Keynes' teorier og bringer dem op til en helt aktuel diskussion af bl.a. bæredygtig udvikling, europæisk krise og offentlige budgetunderskud. Der er et åbenbart behov for, at Keynes atter får en central placering i de økonomiske lærebøger og i grundlaget for den økonomiske politik. Indholdsoversigt Forord Kapitel 1. En oversigt Kapitel 2. John Maynard KEYNES (1883-1946) Kapitel 3. Keynes – moralfilosofi og politik Kapitel 4. Keynes’ tidlige arbejder Kapitel 5. Produktion og beskæftigelse: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money Kapitel 6. Den efterfølgende makroøkonomiske diskussion Kapitel 7. Keynes’ vision Kapitel 8. Keynes i dag APPENDIKS 1. Litteratur APPENDIKS 2. Keynes’ kronologi APPENDIKS 3. Persongalleri APPENDIKS 4. Makroøkonomiske skoler Efterskrift: ’Quite wrong or nothing new?’

THE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY Robert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. Here, Skidelsky has revised and abridged his magnum opus into one definitive book, which examines in its entirety the intellectual and ideological journey that led an extraordinarily gifted young man to concern himself with the practical problems of an age overshadowed by war. John Maynard Keynes offers a sympathetic account of the life of a passionate visionary and an invaluable insight into the economic philosophy that still remains at the centre of political and economic thought. ROBERT SKIDELSKY is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. ('This three-volume life of the British economist should be given a Nobel Prize for History if there was such a thing' - Norman Stone.) He was made a life peer in 1991, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. 'A masterpiece of biographical and historical analysis' - New York Times

THE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY Robert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. Here, Skidelsky has revised and abridged his magnum opus into one definitive book, which examines in its entirety the intellectual and ideological journey that led an extraordinarily gifted young man to concern himself with the practical problems of an age overshadowed by war. John Maynard Keynes offers a sympathetic account of the life of a passionate visionary and an invaluable insight into the economic philosophy that still remains at the centre of political and economic thought. ROBERT SKIDELSKY is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. ('This three-volume life of the British economist should be given a Nobel Prize for History if there was such a thing' - Norman Stone.) He was made a life peer in 1991, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. 'A masterpiece of biographical and historical analysis' - New York Times