Contents

Editors’ Preface

Editors' Preface to the special issue 'Keynes' Relevance to the Contemporary World. Eighty Years since The General Theory'

What is Essential about Keynes Today?

In this paper, a transcript of my address to the 2016 Keynes Conference in Turin, I unpick various elements of...

J.M. Keynes: The Modernity of an Un-Modern Economist

The paper provides a panoramic view on Keynes’s way of reasoning in economics, with a view to highlight the radical...

The Continuing Relevance of Keynes’s Philosophical Thinking: Reflexivity, Complexity and Uncertainty

This paper explains the continuing relevance of Keynes’s philosophical thinking in terms of his anticipation of complexity thinking in economics....

Keynes and Gesell: Political and Social Philosophy, Epistemology and Monetary Reform

It is conventional now to understand Keynes’s economics in terms of his philosophy. The particular connection has been made between...

New-, Neo-Paleo- and Post-Keynesianism: Is a New Macroeconomic Paradigm Possible?

This paper emphasizes two major reasons why in the present context a paradigm shift in macroeconomics is unlikely to materialize,...

Rules and Discretion in the Making of Economic Policy

This article exhibits some caution in deploying the polarity between ‘rules’ and ‘discretion’ in an historical context before first establishing...

John Maynard Keynes as a Global Economic Policymaker: First Do the Macro and then Do the Rest

This paper discusses Keynes’s approach to global economic reform after World War II, and considers how such an approach might...

Reconciling Money and Goods: Keynes’s Commodity and Currency Plans for the Postwar World

Growing volatility of commodity prices has been both symptom and factor of instability over the past years. The problem, however,...