Anticipations of the General Theory?: And Other Essays on Keynes

by Don Patinkin and PATINKIN

Book Overview

This book examines the much-debated question of whether John Maynard Keynes' greatest work--The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money--was an instance of Mertonian simultaneous scientific discovery. In part I of this study, Don Patinkin argues for Keynes' originality, rejecting the claims of the Stockholm school and the Polish economist Michal Kalecki. Patinkin shows that the theoretical problems to which the Stockholm school and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226648745
• ISBN13: 9780226648743
• Release Date: November 1984
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"