Keynes and Macroeconomics by Arne Heise - 9781041191346

Keynes and MacroeconomicsAn Alternative Theory of Employment, Finance and Sustainability\nAuthor(s): Arne Heise\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781041191346, 978-1041191346\nSynopsis\nIn 1936 John Maynard Keynes published a book that he believed would revolutionise the way the world thinks about economic problems: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Although the book became the foundation of a particular approach to economic theorising later termed macroeconomics, in contrast to the microeconomics of the Neoclassical school, which had just begun to dominate the discipline in the early decades of the 20th century it can be argued that Keynes never achieved what Thomas Kuhn described as a scientific revolution: A true paradigm shift.\n\nThis book not only revisits the debate on the \""revolution that never was\"" within a philosophy of science framework one that clearly distinguishes between parad.