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The Cambridge Companion to KEYNES

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Roger E. Backhouse
University of Birmingham

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Grinnell College

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The Cambridge Companion to Keynes Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Edited by Roger E. Backhouse University of Birmingham Bradley W. Bateman Grinnell College, Iowa Paperback  (ISBN-13: 9780521600606 | ISBN-10: 052160060X) Also available in Hardback For price and ordering options, inspection copy requests, and reading lists please select: Europe, Middle East and Africa | Americas | Asia | Australia and New Zealand Please note local prices may apply View Frontmatter as PDF (173KB) The Cambridge Companion to Keynes John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was the most important economist of the twentieth century. He was also a philosopher who wrote on ethics and the theory of probability and was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists. In this volume, contributors from a wide range of disciplines offer new interpretations of Keynes's thought, explain the links between Keynes's philosophy and his economics, and place his work and Keynesianism – the economic theory, the principles of economic policy and the political philosophy – in their historical context. Chapter topics include Keynes's philosophical engagement with G. E. Moore and Franz Brentano, his correspondence, the role of his General Theory in the creation of modern macroeconomics and the many meanings of Keynesianism. New readers will find this the most convenient, accessible guide to Keynes currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Keynes. ROGER E. BACKHOUSE is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham. BRADLEY W. BATEMAN is Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics at Grinnell College, Iowa. Other volumes in the series of cambridge companions ABELARD Edited by JEFFREY E. BROWER and KEVIN GUILFOY ADORNOEdited by THOMAS HUHN ANSELM Edited by BRIAN DAVIES and BRIAN LEFTOW AQUINAS Edited by NORMAN KRETZMANN and ELEONORE STUMP ARABIC PHILOSOPHY Edited by PETER ADAMSON and RICHARD TAYLOR HANNAH ARENDT Edited by DANA VILLA ARISTOTLE Edited by JONATHAN BARNES AUGUSTINE Edited by ELEONORE STUMP and NORMAN KRETZMANN BACON Edited by MARKKU PELTONEN BERKELEY Edited by KENNETH P. WINKLER BRENTANO Edited by DALE JACQUETTE CRITICAL THEORY Edited by FRED RUSH DARWIN Edited by JONATHAN HODGE and GREGORY RADICK SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Edited by CLAUDIA CARD DESCARTES Edited by JOHN COTTINGHAM DUNS SCOTUS Edited by THOMAS WILLIAMS EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY Edited by A. A. LONG FEMINISM IN PHILOSOPHY Edited by MIRANDA FRICKER and JENNIFER HORNSBY FOUCAULT

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