Essays about: "Keynes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the word Keynes.

  1. 1. Climate Finance, limitations and risks in capital generation & delivery - A heterodox critique

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Sebastian Abbas Saifi; [2022]
    Keywords : Capital flows; institutional investment; climate finance; climate finance architecture; Post-keynes; liquidity preference; financialization; minsky financial instability hypothesis; Sustainable Development Goal 13;

    Abstract : This paper examines current and suggested iterations of the climate finance architecture and potential risks in capital generation and delivery. Which is achieved via the construction of a literature review which aims to capture the main actors involved in the climate finance architecture. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Undemocratic Mandate of Economic Expertise

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria

    Author : Ziad Alkirwy; [2021]
    Keywords : Science and Technology Studies; STS; Economics; 1970s; History of Ideas; Neoliberalism; Keynesianism; Social Liberalism; Friedman; Hayek; Keynes; Co-Production; Expertise; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates a pattern of co-production within the field of science and technology studies as it applies to economic ideas and events of the 20th century. The intellectual traditions of Keynesian social liberalism and neoliberalism are traced historically. READ MORE

  4. 3. “I guess everyone is a Keynesian in a foxhole” The story of the war against climate change and how regulated capitalism can make the WTO a force of good

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Tina Markkula; [2019]
    Keywords : WTO; Paris Agreement; Keynes; Climate Change; Sustainability Science; Trade Policy; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Climate change is one of the most pressing issues researched in Sustainability Science. Even though risks and consequences have been shown, actions to reduce emissions have been unsuccessful. UNFCCC is the global center for climate change policy and the host of the greatest concerted will to fight climate change, the Paris Agreement. READ MORE

  5. 4. Back to a General Theory - An Essay in Persuasion

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Georg Meier; Petter Svärd; [2017]
    Keywords : Keynes; DSGE model; ergodicity; effective demand; tripartite economics;

    Abstract : Many Western countries experience failing monetary policy after the 2008 financial crisis. The lack of alternatives to established rules, even when they appear to fail, motivates a close look at the economic ideas John Maynard Keynes developed in his crisis-ridden lifetime, to answer the question: What can Keynes' writings contribute to the contemporary macroeconomic discussion? We trace from the publication of the General Theory (1936) until our time how macroeconomics has narrowed down into theoretical consensus, elevating policy recommendations developed in moderate times to an exclusive status of optimality. READ MORE

  6. 5. Setting the Pace of Capitalism - A Post-Keynesian Perspective on Interest and Profits as a Monetary Phenomenon

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Tune Nielsen; [2017]
    Keywords : History of economic thought; post-Keynesianism; monetary theory of interest; endogenous money; Silvio Gesell; John Maynard Keynes; Knut Wicksell; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Financial markets turn all their attention towards the Federal Reserve Bank and the European Central Bank whenever there are the slightest rumors of a change in the policy rate of interest. But why is this rate so important and what is the theoretical basis of its existence in the first place? In modern economic literature theories of interest are rarely explicitly touched upon and interest is often simply taken for granted in most textbooks. READ MORE