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THE AGE OF KEYNES by Robert Lekachman. 324 pages. Random House. $6. “It has been said that we are all Keynesians now,” writes Robert Lekachman, borrowing the heading of TIME’S cover story (Dec. 31) on ...

I recommend Hunter Lewis's book, Where Keynes Went Wrong as important reading for those interested in economic theory, the recent financial crisis and the policy actions taken to address the crisis by ...

"At research seminars, people don't take Keynesian theorising seriously anymore; the audience starts to whisper and giggle to one another." So declared Robert Lucas of the University of Chicago, ...

Notoriously, economists quarrel about almost everything in their subject. But since the publication of John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in 1936, they are supposed ...

John Maynard Keynes was a 20th century British economist who developed a theory about government policy in relation to private sector business. His macroeconomics approach was to use ...