Michel Verdon, Keynes and the ‘Classics’. A Study in language, epistemology and mistaken identities. Analys du paradigme marxiste, du paradigme néoclassique et du paradigme keynésien. analysis of the three major paradigms in economics: Marxian economics, neoclassical economics and Keynesian economics

Keynes and the ‘Classics’. A Study in language, epistemology and mistaken identities (1996)
Deuxième de couverture

Une édition électronique réalisée à partir du livre de Michel Verdon, Keynes and the ‘Classics’. A Study in language, epistemology and mistaken identities. London and New York: Routledge, 1996, 235 pp. Collection: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics. Une édition numérique réalisée par Marcelle Bergeron, bénévole, professeure à la retraite de l'École polyvalente Dominique-Racine de Chicoutimi, Ville de Saguenay. [Autorisation de l'auteur accordée le 15 septembre 2007.]

KEYNES AND THE
'CLASSICS'

Is there a language which is adequate to describe our own economy?

In this volume, Michel Verdon undertakes a path-breaking analysis of the three major paradigms in economics: Marxian economics, neoclassical economics and Keynesian economics. Each of these, he argues, is built on an inherent representation of the 'economic cosmos' and, in the case of both Marxian and neoclassical economics, these preclude the development of a language which can accurately describe and analyze an economy. The same might not be said, however, of Keynesian economics.

Born in Montréal, Michel Verdon studied anthropology at the Université de Montréal and at Cambridge University, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1975. He taught at Cambridge from 1979 to 1984 and is now teaching in the Department of Anthropology at the Université de Montreal. His research interest in the epistemological problems plaguing the study of society resulted in the publication in Paris of his own theoretical manifesto, Contre la culture (Édition des Archives Contemporaines).