Abstract
Responding to the claims Keynes made in his “General Theory”, economists debated whether Keynesian economics or classical economics was more general. This paper argues the concept of generality underlying most of this literature differs from that underlying the neoclassical synthesis proposed by Paul Samuelson in “Economics”, and that this in turn differed from the notion of generality found in his “Foundations of Economic Analysis”. No fewer than three ideas of what it means to have a general theory are involved.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 139-153 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Italian Economic Journal |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 12 Feb 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2015 |
Keywords
- Keynes
- Samuelson
- equilibrium
- neoclassical
- Synthesis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics and Econometrics
- History
- History and Philosophy of Science