TY - BOOK ID - 146219248 TI - Keynes's general theory for today : contemporary perspectives AU - Jespersen, Jesper AU - Madsen, Mogens Ove PY - 2012 SN - 1283938987 178100952X PB - Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, DB - UniCat KW - Keynesian economics. KW - Economics. KW - Keynes, John Maynard, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146219248 AB - The themes of this important new volume were chosen to mark the 75th anniversary of the publication of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. The distinguished authors concentrate on the relevance of this seminal publication for macroeconomic theory, method and the politics of today. This is particularly pertinent as similarities with the 1930s are striking in terms of unemployment, low growth, financial fragility and the European monetary union resembling the gold standard. Illustrating new ways of understanding the importance of uncertainty in macroeconomics, particularly in v ER -