Is Keynes a Positivist

["stephen" <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For some reason, which completely eludes me, Post keynesians have appeared sympathetic to Bhaskar's transcendental/critical realism.

 

In his General Theory, Keynes writes:

 

"The outline of our theory can be expressed as follows. When employment increases, aggregate real income is increased". (p. 27)

 

According to Lawson, in his book Economics and Reality, positivism can be characterised in terms of the belief that:

 

"If science is to be at all possible, it must take the form of elaborating regularities of the type 'whenever event x then event y'" (p. 19)

 

Hence Keynes is a positivist - or am I missing something?

 

Stephen Parsons