Samuelson, Keynes and the Search for a General Theory of Economics

Italian Economic Journal - Tập 1 - Trang 139-153 - 2015
Roger E. Backhouse1
1Department of Economics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

Tóm tắt

Responding to the claims Keynes made in his “General Theory”, economists debated whether Keynesian economics or classical economics was more general. This paper argues the concept of generality underlying most of this literature differs from that underlying the neoclassical synthesis proposed by Paul Samuelson in “Economics”, and that this in turn differed from the notion of generality found in his “Foundations of Economic Analysis”. No fewer than three ideas of what it means to have a general theory are involved.

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