Thursday , November 21 2024
Home / Lars P. Syll / Keynes’ fundamental insight

Keynes’ fundamental insight

Summary:
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in the escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. John Maynard Keynes [embedded content]Mark Blaug (1927-2011) did more than any other economist to establish the philosophy and methodology of economics a respected subfield within economics. His path-breaking The methodology of economics (1980) is still a landmark (and the first textbook on economic methodology yours truly read as a student at Lund University).

Topics:
Lars Pålsson Syll considers the following as important:

This could be interesting, too:

Merijn T. Knibbe writes In Greece, gross fixed investment still is at a pre-industrial level.

Robert Skidelsky writes Speech in the House of Lords – Autumn Budget 2024

Lars Pålsson Syll writes Modern monetär teori

Lars Pålsson Syll writes Problemen med Riksbankens oberoende

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in the escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

John Maynard Keynes


Mark Blaug (1927-2011) did more than any other economist to establish the philosophy and methodology of economics a respected subfield within economics. His path-breaking The methodology of economics (1980) is still a landmark (and the first textbook on economic methodology yours truly read as a student at Lund University).

Lars Pålsson Syll
Professor at Malmö University. Primary research interest - the philosophy, history and methodology of economics.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *