Stockholmsskolan och den nya ekonomin 1927-1939 : Debatten mellan Stockholmsskolan och John Maynard Keynes om de nya makroekonomiska teoriernas upphov.

Sammanfattning

This scientific essay examines the possible anticipation and influence of the StockholmSchool on Keyne´s The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. By examining the debate that followed on the publication of The General Theory, it concludes that no real evidence is to be found in the sources that supports any anticipation or influence, nor can any evidence be found that supports the oppositeopinion of an influence from Keynes and Cambridge on the Stockholms School of thought. The conclusion is that the long-drawn-out debate that followed on the initial debate in Economic Journal in 1937, between Bertil Ohlin and John Maynard Keynes, was to its main a post-construction created by leading economists who wanted to take part for one or the other side of the debate. The findings of this study is that the Stockholm School actually never claimed or pronounced any anticipation. They merely stated that certain macroeconomic theories had already been developed in Stockholm – which had both similarities and differences to those of Keyne´s General Theory.