Keynesian theory says that the way to end a recession in which the economy is in a “liquidity trap” is for government to ramp ...

How many of us still remember John Maynard Keynes? Keynes, also called "1st Baron Keynes," was a British Economist who lived from 1883 to 1946. He has had a profound influence upon macroeconomics, ...

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 ...

A number of economists have recently been debating what is wrong with macroeconomic modelling today. The University of Chicago's John Cochrane, Oxford’s Simon Wren-Lewis, Berkeley’s Brad DeLong, and ...

Keynesian economics is the perpetual motion machine of the left. You build a model that assumes government spending is good for the economy and you assume that there are zero costs when the government ...

Keynesian economics is an economic theory, and the basic premise is that aggregate demand serves as the primary driver of a nation’s economic activity and employment. This branch of economics was ...

In the battle of economic ideas, one that has been raging for nearly four decades is that between supply-siders and Keynesians. While we think some supply-side measures can be useful, one really has ...

Keynesian economics is back. Government spending to stimulate the economy is all the rage and has won the day in Congress. Of course, conservatives are uneasy. “It’s hardly a secret that Obama is a ...

Harvard Historian Niall Ferguson has apologized for suggesting that John Maynard Keynes’ sexual orientation and lack of children made him indifferent to long-run economic issues. However, leaving the ...

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Keynesian economics is a macroeconomic theory that advocates for active government intervention to manage economic cycles, particularly during recessions and depressions. Developed by British ...

Just how important is money? Few would deny that it plays a key role in the economy.­ During the Great Depression of the 1930s, existing economic theory was unable either to explain the causes of the ...