Keynes
This is home page for the study group re-reading Keynes. It will contain the sequence of posts/lessons as we go through the book, and relevant other materials.
This website will be used to organize and store lectures on Re-Reading Keynes, and associated materials, in a systematic way. These lectures will also be posted on:
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Professor Rod O'Donnell is trying to collect the works of Keynes: JMK Writings Project.
Detailed studies by Brian Ferguson of the historical background and the intellectual environment of Keynes will be extremely useful; Start with: Lectures on John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1): Chapter One, Background and Historical Setting
Click on links in the Central Column below to get to the lesson. These are sequenced by number and according to date.
L2:How to read Keynes in Historical Context
L3:Post-Keynesian History examines influence of Keynes on 20th century
L4:Aspects of Polanyi's methodology: Objective & Subjective are inextricably entangled
L5:Economic ideas informing discourse in early 20th Century
L5.5: GT Chapter 1: One Pager
L6: How Keynes theory differs radically from classical, conventional
L7: GT Chapter 2: Keynesian Unemployment
L8: Keynes initiated a complex systems approach but followers failed to understand it
L9: Employment is about nominal wages.
L10: Comments on Varian -- in context of Keynes rejection of Supply and Demand in labor market
