The Coming of Keynesianism to America

A selection of interviews with the founders of Keynesian economics, this book offers the reader a sense of what the Keynesian revolution was and how it spread. An introductory essay presents the revolution in three parts as theoretical, political and pedagogical, concerned with the development of to [...]
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A selection of interviews with the founders of Keynesian economics, this book offers the reader a sense of what the Keynesian revolution was and how it spread. An introductory essay presents the revolution in three parts as theoretical, political and pedagogical, concerned with the development of tools and models to teach macroeconomics. The hostility that these revolutionaries faced as well as the similarities and differences in their views is revealed in interviews with Richard Musgrave, Abba Lerner, Paul Samuelson, Tibor Scitovsky, Evsey Domar, Robert Bryce, Lorie Tarchis, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Sweezy, Walter Salant and Leon Keyserling.