The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924-36 - Hardcover

Clarke, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198283040 ISBN 13: 9780198283041

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1988

Synopsis

This study represents the quest for the historical Keynes, following the story of an argument which arose out of the performance of the British economy in the period of depression between the wars. The starting point for this book was an essay by Peter Clarke called "The Politics of Keynesian Economics, 1924-31" published in "High and Low Politics in Modern Britain" (Oxford 1983). One theme of the essay was the importance of the political context in understanding the theoretical position Keynes adopted in his "Treatise on Money" (1930) and this is matched in this book with an essay along the same lines, covering the years in which Keynes produced "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" (1936). The book aims to provide an account of Keynes' thinking in the years that led up to the "General Theory" and to make it comprehensible to specialists and non-specialists alike.

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Review

`a bold and exciting book ... a gem of historical insight and scholarship, which glitters with striking phrases and images ... a much richer, more precise, context for the development of Keynes's ideas than anything we have had so far'Robert Skidelsky, New Statesman and Society

`brilliant and meticulous essay ... He [Clarke] is to be congratulated on a scholarly tour de force'Guardian

`brilliant new study'Observer

`The Keynesian Revolution in the Making leaves the reader with the feeling of having been a privileged fly on the wall as the new truths fell into place. Dr Clarke has put together a remarkable cocktail which mixes economic, political, intellectual and institutional history.'Independent

`elegant and absorbing book ... It is skilfully constructed, utterly lucid, and therefore accessible to all students of Keynes, for whom it will be necessary reading'London Review of Books

`In this brilliant new study ... Peter Clarke rescues the man from the monument, the thinker from the thought. David Marquand, Times of India

`This book ranks among the very best on Keynes and deserves the widest audience.' Times Literary Supplement

`the sensitive and subtle combination of close textual analysis and historical context make The Keynesian Revolution in the Making 1924-1936 essential reading for economists, and not just the specialist historians of economic thought who will find the ground familiar, though rarely covered with this clarity' Roger Middleton, TLS

`The book will be exceedingly useful for both economists and economic historians. I liked it for two main reasons: first, for its clarity in describing the evolution of Keynes's thinking, and second, because the context and content of the debates in the late 1920s and early 1930s over the reconciliation of internal and external equilbrium have an uncanny contemporary ring about them, and history has lessons to teach.' A.P. Thirlwall, University of Kent. THES

`a piece of detailed intellectual history upon which both economic and political historians will exercise their minds' R.C. Whiting, University of Leeds, History No. 243 Feb 1990

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0198283040
• ISBN 13: 9780198283041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360