The Elgar Companion to John Maynard Keynes

Edited by Robert W. Dimand, Professor of Economics, Brock University, Canada and Harald Hagemann, Professor Emeritus of Economic Theory, University of Hohenheim, Germany

The most influential and controversial economist of the twentieth century, John Maynard Keynes was the leading founder of modern macroeconomics, and was also an important historical figure as a critic of the Versailles Peace Treaty after World War I and an architect of the Bretton Woods international monetary system after World War II. This comprehensive Companion elucidates his contributions, his significance, his historical context and his continuing legacy.

‘The Elgar Companion to John Maynard Keynes will be an invaluable reference tool for Keynes scholars. The general reader interested in the life and work of Keynes will also enjoy it. The editors, Robert Dimand and Harald Hagemann, deserve great praise for their selection of topics covered and for commissioning an exceptional list of experts to write the essays. The publisher, Edward Elgar, should also be acknowledged and thanked for its decision to publish a book of outstanding quality and on such an extensive scale.’
– Selwyn Cornish, Economic Record

“这volume is an excellent reference book on Keynes and Keynesian economics.’
– Ivo Maes, Journal of European Integration History

‘Keynes’s life and thought is a very large and multidimensional subject. To understand it we need to hear from multiple interpretive voices and the Elgar Companion certainly provides that.’
– Tony Aspromourgos, The History of Economics Review

‘Imaginatively edited and extremely wide-ranging, this always readable and sometimes provocative collection vividly displays the depth, breadth and persistence of Keynes’s influence on our discipline: particularly recommended as a reliable cure for the intellectual indigestion so often brought on by overindulging in any of today’s DSGE-heavy diets.’
– David Laidler, University of Western Ontario, Canada

‘To create a macroeconomics for this century, economists cannot do better than to build on the legacy of Keynes, the great economist of the last century. The Elgar Companion to John Maynard Keynes provides essential background, context, and analysis for understanding Keynes’s work. I wish it had been available when I was preparing my own contribution to the rejuvenation of ideas that were revolutionary when Keynes propounded them more than 80 years ago and remain revolutionary to this day.’
– Stephen Marglin, Harvard University, US