2017年5月20日土曜日

A STUDY OF KEYNES'S ECONOMICS from the Tract to the General Theory TOSHIAKI HIRAI (Prof., Sophia University, Tokyo)




   A STUDY OF KEYNES'S ECONOMICS

   from the Tract to the General Theory



                                                             TOSHIAKI HIRAI 

                                           (Prof., Sophia University, Tokyo)





The principal objective of this study is to examine Keynes's development as an economic theoretician. Our main work is to analyse the processes of theory-building and re-building which constitute Keynes's intellectual journey from the Treatise to the General Theory. Attention has also be given to such topics as the historical development of various streams of economic theory, economic policy and social philosophy, as well as to British and international history to the extent that these are germane to a proper understanding of Keynes's contribution to modern economics in the wider perspective.



Table of Contents



BOOK I THE STATE OF ECONOMICS BEFORE KEYNES

    CHAPTER 1  THE RELATIVE DECLINE OF THE BRITISH ECONOMY
 CHAPTER 2  THE RISE OF NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS
 CHAPTER 3  THE WICKSELL CONNECTION

BOOK II  THE DEVELOPMENT OF KEYNES'S ECONOMICS

 CHAPTER 4  THE LIFE OF KEYNES
     CHAPTER 5  KEYNES'S VIEW OF THE MARKET SOCIETY
     CHAPTER 6 From the Tract on Monetary Reform to the Treatise on Money
 CHAPTER 7  A TREATISE ON MONEY
     CHAPTER 8  AFTER THE TREATISE
 CHAPTER 9  THE TURNING POINT
 CHAPTER 10  SEARCHING FOR A NEW THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT
 CHAPTER 11  ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INVESTMENT AND CONSUMPTION
               THEORIES
     CHAPTER 12  THE EVE OF THE GENERAL THEORY
     CHAPTER 13  THE PROOFING PROCESS OF THE GENERAL THEORY (1)
     CHAPTER 14 THE PROOFING PROCESS OF THE GENERAL THEORY (2)
     CHAPTER 15 THE GENERAL THEORY
     CHAPTER 16  FROM THE TREATISE TO THE GENERAL THEORY
 CHAPTER 17  INTERPRETATIONS OF KEYNES AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF
POSTWAR MACROECONOMICS

      APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 1  THE INTERWAR STATISTICAL DATA
  APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 5  A CONFLICT BETWEEN INTERNATIONALISM
                                               AND NATIONALISM
     APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 7  A MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION OF THE TREATISE THEORY
     APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 15  THE COMMODITY MARKET IN THE GENERAL THEORY An Interpretation

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********* About  the Author 

Toshiaki Hirai

(* The papers and books written in Japanese are omitted.)

[Selected Books]

Keynes’s Theoretical Development – from the Tract to the General Theory, Routledge,2007.

The Return to Keynes (co-edited by B. Bateman, T. Hirai and M.C.Marcuzzo), The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

Keynesian Reflections (co-edited by T. Hirai, M.C. Marcuzzo and P. Mehrling,
Oxford University Press, 2013.

Capitalism and the World Economy (edited by T. Hirai), Routledge, 2015.


[Selected Papers]

“The Turning Point in Keynes’s Theoretical Development”, History of
Economic Ideas, XII-2, 2004.

“How Did Keynes Transform His Theory from the Tract into the Treatise?”,
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, XIV-2, 2007.

“How, and For How Long, Did Keynes Maintain the Treatise Theory?”,
Journal of the History of Economic Thought,29-3, 2007.

“Exploring Hawtrey’s Social Philosophy through His Unpublished
Book, Right Policy, Journal of the History of Economic Thought,34-2, 2012.
“International Design and the British Empire”, History of Economics Review, 57
(Winter), 2013.

Others
Editor-in-Chief, Annals of the Society for the History of Economic Thought,   
October1998- May 2001.

Membebr of the Editorial Board (Japan) for the Colleted Writings of John
Maynard Keynes (1992- ).

Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Economics and Politics, Cambridge University (Oct.1987-March 1988).
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Hisorical Research, University of London (August 1997-September 1998).

Visiting Professor, University of Rome <La Sapienza>, October 2003 - March
2004.

Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto, May 2004 - July 2004.

Member of the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), April 2006 -March 2010 .

The Union of National Economic Associations in Japan (April 2009 - March 2011)

The Chief Organizer for the International Keynes Conference held at Tokyo (so far held twele times).


Guest Professor, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (April 2017 – June 2017)