Naslov
“Economics is a Very Dangerous Science” – Keynes and the Indispensability of the Humanities

Autori
Brlek, Tomislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Ekonomija i književnost / Economy and Literature

Urednik/ci
Hameršak, Marijana ; Kolanović, Maša ; Molvarec, Lana

Izdavač
Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2022

Raspon stranica
83-98

ISBN
9789531694995

Ključne riječi
John Maynard Keynes ; economics ; humanities ; uncertainty ; laissez-faire

Sažetak
If John Maynard Keynes “was by far the most influential economist of [the 20th] century and, with Smith, Marx, and possibly Ricardo, one of the three or four greatest economists who ever lived” (J.K. Galbraith), that was certainly due to the fact that “he was not an academic economist in the twenty-first century understanding of the term” (R. Posner). Always insisting that economics was a moral science, as opposed to a numerical one that its (mis)leading lights over the past half-century or so would have us believe, Keynes consequently always placed it within the purview of philosophy. Drawing largely on what is arguably his most learned essay in political economy “The End of Laissez-faire” of 1926, the paper proposes Keynes as a case in point against insulating economics from the humanities, purposely as the latter enables comprehending the role of uncertainty in the former.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Književnost

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