In this compelling book, John B. Davis examines the change and development inKeynes’s philosophical thinking, from his earliest work through to The General Theory, arguing that Keynes came to believe himself mistaken about a number of his early philosophical concepts. The author begins by looking at the unpublished ‘Apostles’ papers, written under the influence of the philosopher G. E.Moore. These display the tensions in Keynes’s early philosophical views, and outline his philosophical concepts of the time, including the concept of intuition. Davis then shows how Keynes’s later philosophy is implicit in the economic argument of The General Theory. He argues that Keynes’s philosophy had by this time changed radically, and that he had abandoned the concept of intuitionfor the concept of convention. The author sees this as being the central ideain The General Theory, and looks at the philosophical nature of this concept of convention in detail. INDICE: Preface; Introduction: Keynes and philosophy; 1. Keynes’s early intuitionism; 2. The dilemmas of Moore’s Principia for ethics and economics; 3. Keynes’s self-critique; 4. Keynes’s later philosophy; 5. The philosophical thinking of The General Theory; 6. Ethics and policy; Conclusion: Keynes’s philosophical development; Notes; References; Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-521-06551-1
- Editorial: Cambridge University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 212
- Fecha Publicación: 19/06/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés