TY - UNPB
T1 - An Issue With Own-rates
T2 - Keynes Borrows From Sraffa, Sraffa Criticises Keynes, and Present-day Commentators Get Hold of the Wrong End of the Stick
AU - Grieve, Roy H
N1 - Published as a paper within the Discussion Papers in Economics, No. 13-19 (2013)
PY - 2013/9/12
Y1 - 2013/9/12
N2 - Scholars who in recent years have studied the Sraffa papers held in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, have concluded from Sraffa’s critical (but unpublished) observations on Chapter 17 of Keynes’s General Theory that he rejected Keynes’s central proposition that the rate of interest on money may come to ‘rule the roost’, thus dragging the economy into recession. While Sraffa does indeed express dissatisfaction with Chapter 17, the commentators have, we believe, misunderstood his concern: we suggest that he was unhappy with the ‘own-rates’ terminology employed by Keynes rather than with the substance of the theory developed in Chapter 17.
AB - Scholars who in recent years have studied the Sraffa papers held in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, have concluded from Sraffa’s critical (but unpublished) observations on Chapter 17 of Keynes’s General Theory that he rejected Keynes’s central proposition that the rate of interest on money may come to ‘rule the roost’, thus dragging the economy into recession. While Sraffa does indeed express dissatisfaction with Chapter 17, the commentators have, we believe, misunderstood his concern: we suggest that he was unhappy with the ‘own-rates’ terminology employed by Keynes rather than with the substance of the theory developed in Chapter 17.
KW - chapter 17 of keynes's general theory
KW - commodity-rates
KW - own-rates of interest
UR - https://www.strath.ac.uk/business/economics/research/discussionpapers/
M3 - Discussion paper
T3 - Strathclyde Discussion Papers in Economics
BT - An Issue With Own-rates
PB - University of Strathclyde
CY - Glasgow
ER -