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Keynes and the Social Sciences: Contributions Outside of Economics, with Applications to Economic Anthropology and Comparative Systems

In: Keynes’s General Theory After Seventy Years

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  • Mathew Forstater

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Keynes’s contributions and influence in the worlds of theoretical and practical economics need no documentation. Clearly, he was the most influential economist of the twentieth century, and clearly his legacy continues into the twenty-first. Well-known also is that Keynes made significant and formal contributions in other fields, in mathematics and statistics (e.g. his Treatise on Probability), philosophy, psychology and even historical studies. But Keynes also has had a lesser known and sometimes more indirect and informal influence on the other social sciences, in anthropology, sociology and political science. Following some brief, general comments on these three disciplines, two important case studies will be presented in the areas of economic anthropology and comparative systems.

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  • Mathew Forstater, 2010. "Keynes and the Social Sciences: Contributions Outside of Economics, with Applications to Economic Anthropology and Comparative Systems," International Economic Association Series, in: Robert W. Dimand & Robert A. Mundell & Alessandro Vercelli (ed.), Keynes’s General Theory After Seventy Years, chapter 7, pages 120-132, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-0-230-27614-7_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230276147_8
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