Keynes and The 'Classics' : A Study in Language, Epistemology and Mistaken Identities.

By: Verdon, MichelMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics SerPublisher: Florence : Routledge, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (246 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203005453Subject(s): Keynesian economics | Marxian economics | Neoclassical school of economicsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Keynes and The 'Classics' : A Study in Language, Epistemology and Mistaken IdentitiesDDC classification: 330.01 LOC classification: HB99.7 -- .V43 1996ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Front Cover -- Keynes and The 'Classics' -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A Background to the Neoclassical Cosmology -- The 'opposition' from the point of view of the marginalist 'revolutionaries' -- The marginalist revolution -- 2 Probing the Neoclassical Cosmology -- In search of the neoclassical minimal unit -- Equilibrium, exchange and perfection -- The cosmological implications of perfection -- 3 Strange Cosmological Bedfellows -- Marshall and OCT: inverted symmetries -- What's in a name? -- The two Marshalls -- Misunderstanding 'forces': an economics of 'resistances' -- 4 From Cosmology to Language -- The conceptual costs of neoclassical economics' cosmologies -- Irrealism or delusion? -- 5 Keynes's Economics: What Kind of Revolution? -- Isolating the minimal unit -- Keynes's economics: a Galilean revolution -- 6 Keynes and Speculation: Aristotle Revisited -- Keynes and the rate of interest -- Keynes and user costs -- 7 More Substance and Transactions -- Keynes and effective demand -- Keynes and investment -- 8 From a Galilean Cosmology to a Galilean Economics -- From cosmology to language -- Economic actions and their symmetrically inverse counterparts -- From language to theory -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Mirowski on science and economics -- Appendix 2 Marx's economics: successes and failures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Is there a language which is adequate to describe our own economy? In this volume, Michel Verdon undertakes a path-breaking analysis of the three major paradigms in economics: Marxian economics, neo-classical economics and Keynesian economics. Each of these, he argues, has an inherent cosmology, and in the case of both Marxian and neo-classical economics these preclude the development of a language which can accurately describe and analyse an economy.
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Front Cover -- Keynes and The 'Classics' -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 A Background to the Neoclassical Cosmology -- The 'opposition' from the point of view of the marginalist 'revolutionaries' -- The marginalist revolution -- 2 Probing the Neoclassical Cosmology -- In search of the neoclassical minimal unit -- Equilibrium, exchange and perfection -- The cosmological implications of perfection -- 3 Strange Cosmological Bedfellows -- Marshall and OCT: inverted symmetries -- What's in a name? -- The two Marshalls -- Misunderstanding 'forces': an economics of 'resistances' -- 4 From Cosmology to Language -- The conceptual costs of neoclassical economics' cosmologies -- Irrealism or delusion? -- 5 Keynes's Economics: What Kind of Revolution? -- Isolating the minimal unit -- Keynes's economics: a Galilean revolution -- 6 Keynes and Speculation: Aristotle Revisited -- Keynes and the rate of interest -- Keynes and user costs -- 7 More Substance and Transactions -- Keynes and effective demand -- Keynes and investment -- 8 From a Galilean Cosmology to a Galilean Economics -- From cosmology to language -- Economic actions and their symmetrically inverse counterparts -- From language to theory -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Mirowski on science and economics -- Appendix 2 Marx's economics: successes and failures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Is there a language which is adequate to describe our own economy? In this volume, Michel Verdon undertakes a path-breaking analysis of the three major paradigms in economics: Marxian economics, neo-classical economics and Keynesian economics. Each of these, he argues, has an inherent cosmology, and in the case of both Marxian and neo-classical economics these preclude the development of a language which can accurately describe and analyse an economy.

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