The General Theory and Victoria Chick at 80
The conference celebrated and reflected on the lasting contributions of The General Theory and Victoria Chick to macroeconomics, with short presentations from distinguished economists from around the world.
The event was organised in collaboration with The Post-Keynesian Economics Study Group and the Association for Heterodox Economics.
Alan Freeman
University of Manitoba (CA)
The “Steady State” and its Place in Keynes’s Theory
Bert Tieben
SEO, Amsterdam (NL)
Equilibrium and Uncertainty
Rogerio Studart
Brookings Institution (US)
Transforming finance for sustainable investments
Slides
Hugh Goodacre
University College London
Ricardian Victory
Peter Kriesler
University of New South Wales
A two pronged attack: how Keynes’ theory was lost
Adners Ekeland
University of Oslo (NO)
Pasinetti on the change of paradigm in economics: the unfinished revolution of the Cambridge Keynesians
Slides
Jens Hölscher
University of Bournemouth
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Radhika Desai
University of Manitoba (CA)
Keynes’s journey from supporter to critic of the Gold Standard
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
University of Rome “La Sapienza” (IT)
Un-twisting The General Theory: Victoria Chick's lifetime challenge
Roy Rotheim
Skidmore College (US)
Open systems and the individual in Keynes’s theory of effective demand
Dario Togati
University of Turin (IT)
The generality of The General Theory
Slides
Martin Watts
University of Newcastle, Australia (AU)
Teaching a pluralist first year macroeconomics course utilising blended learning
Slides
Allesandro Vercelli
Università degli Studi di Siena (IT)
Weight of argument and liquidity preference: Maynard Keynes in the light of Victoria Chick
Slides
Charles Goodhart
London School of Economics and Political Science
Paper
Tim Congdon
Institute of International Monetary Research
The general theory of the determination of the quantities of the monetary base and of money, and of the money market rate and “the rate of interest”
Slides
Carlos Rodrigues-Fuentes
University of La Laguna (ES)
Paper
Slides
Penelope Hawkins
FEASibility, Johannesburg (ZA)
Aggressive lending, social value and regulatory challenge
Amitava Krishna Dutt
University of Notre Dame (US)
Towards a theory of shadow money
Gary Dymski
University of Leeds
Making financial instability visible in space as well as time: toward a more Keynesian approach to economic geography
Slides
Geoff Tily
Trades Union Congress
'Academic reviews of Macroeconomics after Keynes in retrospect
Slides
Organising committee
Sheila Dow (Stirling and Victoria), Jesper Jespersen (Roskilde) & Geoff Tily (TUC)
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