In the long run we are all dead
Subtitle: Keynesianism, political economy, and revolution
By: Geoff Mann
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781784785994
Subjects: Economic policy; Financial crises; Keynesian economics; Economic history
Description: "A groundbreaking debunking of moderate attempts to resolve financial crises If, in liberal capitalism, political economy is the science of government, what is it for? Is it distributional, to realize the revolution without revolutionaries? Or is it to figure out how to forestall the revolution, to teach the masses to consent to remain poor? Keynesianism is the political economy that answers 'yes' on both counts: the solution to crisis-induced liberal anxiety since the French Revolution, an anxiety for which "political economy" seemed a cure. If the financial crisis of 2007-2008 briefly resurrected a Keynesian sensibility long declared dead, its reluctant radicalism finds itself renewed not because 'Keynesian economics' is palatable once more, but because the risks to "civilization" have posed themselves so aggressively it seems no one can afford not to listen"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Keynesianism; title: Before Keynes; title: Keynes: how to read the General Theory, I, II, III; title: After Keynes.