Re: What's A Good Keynesian Textbook?

[David Colander <colander@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One must be careful with these recommendations--Paul's is a
text I would definitely recommend for someone who wants to
teach a post keynesian approach. Now if they want to teach a
relatively mainstream course with a sensitivity to post
keynesian views, there's this other introductory text that I
would recommend..........


Dave



pdavidso wrote:
>
> >===== Original Message From Helmet4000@xxxxxxx =====
> >Prof. Davidson,
> >
> >Thanks for responding.  I am just looking for a good textbook, similar to an
> >economics textbook used in an introductory class, that explains the economic
> >world from the Post-Keynesian perspective.  I am not sure if there is much of
> >a market for that so I would guess you wrote one more for graduate students
> >and colleagues.  Is that the case?  Either way I am looking forward.
> >
> >
>
> My book POST KEYNSIAN MACROECONOMIC THEORY (published by Elgar in 1994) is an
> excellent undergraduate text -- that I have used and that David Colander
> reviewed in the JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE and recommended as the kind of
> text that should be used in undergraduate courses. It even comes in a
> paperback edition.
>
> The new book FINANCIAL MARKETS, MONEY AND THE REAL WORLD is written for both
> professional economists and the lay public.  Many technical apparati, e.g.,
> equations, grpahs, etc are put i9n special sections in each chapter so that
> they can be skipped by the general public-- yet they show the professional
> economist, for example, of how to go from Marshallian firm supply and demand
> curves to the aggregate supply and demand functions of Keynes's General
> Theory.
>
> Paul Davidson
>
> Paul Davidson
> Editor, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
> University of Tennessee
> SMC 523
> Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0550
> phone # (865)974-4221; fax #(561)737-8262;
> email pdavidson@xxxxxxx
> http://econ.bus.utk.edu/Davidson.html

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