Keynes and Marx
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Keynes and Marx

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Keynes and Marx

About this book

Keynes was an elitist and pro-capitalist economist, whom the left should embrace with caution. But his analysis provides a concreteness missing from Marx and engages with critical issues of the modern world that Marx could not have foreseen. This book argues that a critical Marxist engagement can simultaneously increase the power of Keynes's insight and enrich Marxism.To understand Keynes, whose work is liberally invoked but seldom read, Dunn explores him in the context of the extraordinary times in which he lived, his philosophy, and his politics. By offering a detailed overview of Keynes's critique of mainstream economics and General Theory, Dunn argues that Keynes provides an enduringly valuable critique of orthodoxy. The book develops a Marxist appropriation of Keynes's insights, arguing that a Marxist analysis of unemployment, capital and the role of the state can be enriched through such a critical engagement.The point is to change the world, not just to understand it. Thus the book considers the prospects of returning to Keynes, critically reviewing the practices that have come to be known as 'Keynesianism' and the limits of the theoretical traditions that have made claim to his legacy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Information
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Figures
  8. Tables
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: towards a critical but constructive appraisal of Keynes’s thought
  11. 1 Keynes’s life and times
  12. 2 Keynes’s philosophy
  13. 3 Keynes’s politics
  14. 4 Economics before the General Theory
  15. 5 Keynes’s General Theory
  16. 6 Unemployment: making Marxist use of Keynes
  17. 7 Money
  18. 8 Profit and interest
  19. 9 Money and states in capitalism’s uneven development
  20. 10 Keynesianism in practice?
  21. 11 Keynesian theory after Keynes
  22. 12 The decline of Keynesianism and the prospects for return
  23. References
  24. Index