Reviving Growth Keynesianism
The original vision of RGK was to do a lot of writing here about “the Keynesian Revolution, then and now,” in a way that would make it easy for people to understand and get involved. The pandemic threw that plan for a loop! Instead we’ve focused on the podcast, which you can listen to at the link below or wherever fine podcasts are hosted. We’ve also made a few interesting texts from the American Keynesian tradition available for the first time online. Finally, we’ve done some writing at popular outlets that you can check out at the blog. Enjoy!
We are currently on a break while Robert tends to a newborn child in the home and Nic finishes his dissertation and confronts the job market. But don’t worry, we’ll be back!
- Our Podcast
- The Growth Keynesian Archive: Mid-century writing, with our commentary
- A Syllabus of Pragmatic Keynesian Economics: A deeper dive into intellectual history of Keynesianism that will build your technical skills
Latest from The Archive
After Free Trade – a review of Eric Helleiner’s *The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History*
Helleiner shows that there were as many flavors of neomercantilism as there were national, imperial, and postcolonial traditions. From Meiji Japan to Sun Yat-sen’s China, from Muhammad Ali’s Egypt to Marcus Garvey’s African diaspora and the Swadeshi movement in India, neomercantilist ideas flourished throughout the long nineteenth century. They took form in political speeches, racist…
In the Common Interest – a review of Ariel Ron’s *Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic*
In an influential 1943 essay, Polish economist Michał Kalecki staged a contest between capitalism’s pursuit of profit and its pursuit of power. While the benefits of government-sponsored full employment would benefit capitalists economically, Kalecki argued, it would also fundamentally threaten their social position—and the latter mattered more. If wide sections of the country came to…
Introducing *An Economic Program for American Democracy*
In 1938, a group of Harvard and Tufts economists published a book titled An Economic Program for American Democracy. The group included a few famous names – Richard V. Gilbert; George H. Hildebrand, Jr.; Arthur W. Stuart; Maxine Yaple Sweezy; Paul M. Sweety; Lorie Tarshis and John D. Wilson – and a few who never…
Introducing Foster and Catchings
Proto-Keynesian economic theory from an unlikely place.
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