Wynne Godley: A Biography

by Alan Shipman

Book Overview

This timely biography of the economist Wynne Godley (1926-2010) charts his long and often crisis-blown route to a new way of understanding whole economies. It shows how early frustrations as a policy-maker enabled him to glimpse the cliff-edges other macro-modellers missed, and re-arm 'Keynesian' theory against the orthodoxy that had tried to absorb it. Godley gained notoriety for his economic commentaries - foreseeing the malaise of the 1970s, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030122913
• ISBN13: 9783030122911
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"