Capital and Employment

Series Editor's PrefacePreface I. Introduction A. The Contemporary Position of 'Keynesian Economics' B. The Problem of Interpretation C. Outline of the Argument II. Preliminary Definitions and Concepts A. A Capitalist Economy B. The 'Object' and 'Method' of Economic Analysis C. Theory Versus Method: The Explanation of the Object D. Long-Period and Short-Period Positions E. The Traditional Long-Period Method of Economic Analysis F. The Method of 'Intertemporal Equilibrium' G. Some Terminological ConventionsPart One: The Pre-1936 Orthodoxy and the General Theory III. The Traditional Long-Period Method of Economic Analysis A. Natural Prices and the Long-Period Method B. The Representation of the Persistent Forces of Free Competition Under the Long-Period Method C. Monetary Forces: Persistent or Transitory? D. The Stationary-State and the Long-Period Method E. Reasons for the Supremacy of the Long-Period Method F. Principal Conclusions and Remaining Questions IV. Theoretical Systems and the Long-Period Method A. The Structure of Classical Economic Theory B. The Structure of Marginalist Economic Theory C. 'Say's Law' and Classical Economics D. 'Say's Law' in Marginalist Economic Theory V. The Analysis of Deviations from Long-Period Positions A. Short-Period Theory and Long-Period Theory B. Movement Away from the Quantity Theory in the Analysis of Deviations C. Wicksell's Cumulative Process D. Developments in England: Hawtrey, Lavington and Robertson E. The Argument so Far VI. The Principle of Effective Demand: The Positive Part of the General Theory A. The Principle of Effective Demand B. The Long-Period Theory of Output and Employment C. Remnants of Orthodoxy D. Keynes and Marginalist Economic Theory E. Keynes and Classical Economic Theory VII. The Theory of Capital and the Theory of Employment: The Negative Part of the General Theory A. The Inflexibility of Money Wages B. Keynes on The 'Classical' Theory of Interest: I C. Keynes on The 'Classical' Theory of Interest: II D. Reconstructing a Critique E. Capital and Employment VIII. The Method of Intertemporal Equilibrium A. The Trend in Modern 'Keynesian' Economics B. The Method of Intertemporal Equilibrium C. The Origin of the Notion of Intertemporal Equilibrium D. Reasons for the Emergence of the Notion of 'Intertemporal Equilibrium' E. Historical Reconstruction F. The Stationary-State Hypothesis IX. Uncertainty and Expectations A. The 'Method of Expectations' B. Statics and Dynamics C. The Significance of the General TheoryPart Two: The Treatise on Money and the General Theory X. The Method of Analysis in the Treatise and the General Theory A. Saving and Investment: Different Decisions or New Theory of Employment? B. The Conceptual Framework of the Treatise on Money C. The 'Length' of the Short-Period D. The Conceptual Framework of the General Theory E. 'Causal Sequences' and 'Disequilibrium' Appendix: The Fundemantal Equations: Definitions and Derivation XI. The Theoretical System of the Treatise Versus the General Theory A. The Natural Rate of Interest and the Level of Employment: Marginalist Theory B. The Theoretical Structure of the Treatise on Money C. The Principle of Effective Demand D. From the Treatise to the General TheoryAppendix 1: Natural Prices, Persistent Forces and the Concept of Self-AdjustmentAppendix 2: Notes on 'Stocks and Flows', 'Supply-Price' and 'Quasi-Rent'ReferencesIndex