The Global Crisis of 2008 and Keynes's General Theory

This book describes the international context and some of the factors that have weakened the influence of Keynesian economic thought. It illustrates economic responses offered by the new Keynesian school and the alternative perspective on the global crisi

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Fikret Čaušević

The Global Crisis of 2008 and Keynes’s General Theory

SpringerBriefs in Economics

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Fikret Čaušević

The Global Crisis of 2008 and Keynes’s General Theory

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Fikret Čaušević School of Economics and Business University of Sarajevo Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina

ISSN 2191-5504 ISBN 978-3-319-11450-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-11451-4

ISSN 2191-5512 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-11451-4 (eBook)

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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes. John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory, Chapter 24 I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the only means of securing an approximation to full employment; though this need not exclude all manner of compromises and of devices by which public authority will co-operate with private initiative. But beyond this no obvious case is made out for a system of State Socialism which would embrace most of