Revisiting Keynes : economic possibilities for our grandchildren / edited by Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pecchi, Lorenzo, 1957-

Piga, Gustavo, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Keynesian economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leading economists revisit a provocative essay by John Maynard Keynes, debating Keynes's vision of growth, inequality, work leisure, entrepreneurship, consumerism, and the search for happiness in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Contents ; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren: A Twenty-first Century Perspective; 1 Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930); 2 Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren 75 Years After: A Global Perspective; 3 Toward a General Theory of Consumerism: Reflections on Keynes's Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren; 4 Whose Grandchildren?; 5 Corporatism and Keynes: His Philosophy of Growth; 6 Back to the Future with Keynes; 7 Spreading the Bread Thin on the Butter; 8 Economic Well-being in a Historical Context

9 Why Do We Work More Than Keynes Expected?10 Context Is More Important Than Keynes Realized; 11 The End of (Economic) History; 12 All the Interesting Questions, Almost All the Wrong Reasons; 13 Why Keynes Underestimated Consumption and Overestimated Leisure for the Long Run; 14 What Is Wrong in Keynes's Prophecy? How the End of Economics Turned into the Rise of the Economics of Social Responsibility; 15 Really Thinking Long Run: Keynes's Other Masterpiece; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-31175-5

0-262-28133-3

1-4356-6537-6

OCLC:

252082954