Price Flexibility and Output Stability: An Old Keynesian View
- 1 February 1993
- journal article
- Published by American Economic Association in Journal of Economic Perspectives
- Vol. 7 (1) , 45-65
- https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.7.1.45
Abstract
In this symposium I shall play the role in which I was cast, the unreconstructed old Keynesian. Considering the alternatives, I do not mind being billed as a Keynesian, an old Keynesian at that. But old Keynesians come in several varieties, and I speak for no one but myself. Nor do I defend the literal text of The General Theory. Several generations of economists have criticized, amended, and elaborated that seminal work. I shall argue for the validity of the major propositions that distinguish Keynesian macroeconomics from old or new classical macroeconomics.Keywords
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