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Existentialism in The General Theory

In: John Maynard Keynes

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  • Piero V. Mini

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A great deal of confusion in the literature on Keynes’s method is introduced by his admiration for intuition. Keynes alleges that thinkers like Newton, Marshall, Jevons, Ramsey and Malthus had great powers of intuition, as they were able to see the ‘destination’ before discovering a route to it. In a 1936 remark he calls making sense of this ability ‘the most obscure problem of all in the psychology of original work’.1 (Notice the emphasis on the psychological approach, which justifies a work such as this one.)

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  • Piero V. Mini, 1994. "Existentialism in The General Theory," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: John Maynard Keynes, chapter 11, pages 164-182, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-23606-0_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-23606-0_12
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