History of economic thought since Keynes

This 18-hour course has three objectives. Firstly, it aims to deepen and/or contextualise students' disciplinary knowledge on the 5 selected themes (see syllabus). Secondly, it aims to provide an overview of the various dimensions (theoretical, epistemological, contextual, sociological, political) that characterise the work of historians of economic thought. Thirdly, it aims to give an account of the controversial nature of the development of economics during the 20th century.

Syllabus

Introduction : Economics in the 20th century and history of economic thought.

Chapter 1: From Keynes to the neoclassical synthesis: what is the Keynesian revolution? 

Chapter 2: The tools and role of the economist through the prism of World War Two.

Chapter 3: How to articulate theory and empirics?

Chapter 4: How to model individual rationality? 

Chapter 5: What is the purpose of theories of the firm?

Conclusion: The transformation of economics since the 1970s