Sylabus
I. Foundations of the keynesian macroeconomics in the work of John Maynard Keynes 1. The Treatise on Money . London, Macmillan 1930 (ch. 15) 2. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. San Diego, HBJ 1953 (ch. 5, 12)
II. Neokeynesian macroeconomics - the Great Neoclassical Synthesis 3. John Hicks: Mr. Keynes and the Classics. Econometrica, Vol. 5, April 1937 4. Franco Modigliani: Liquidity Preference and the Theory of Interest and Money. Econometrica, Vol. 12, January 1944 5. James Tobin: Inflation and unemployment. American Economic Review, March 1972;Price Flexibility and Output Stability - An Old Keynesian View. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, No. 1, Vol. 7, Winter 1993
III. Disequilibrium keynesianism 6. Robert Clower: The Keynesian Counterrevolution: A Theoretical Appraisal. In: Hahn, F. E., Brechling, F. P. R. (eds.): The Theory of Interest Rates. London, Macmillan 1965 7. Axel Leijonhufvud: Keynes and the Keynesians. A Suggested Interpretation. American Economic Review, Vol. 57, May 1967
IV. Postkeynesian Economics 8. Nicholas Kaldor: The Irrelevance of Equilibrium Economics. The Economic Journal, No. 328, Vol. 82, December 1972 9. Jan Kregel: Economic Methodology in the Face of Uncertainty. Economic Journal, Vol. 86, June 1976 10. Hyman Philip Minsky: The Financial Instability Hypothesis: A Restatement.Thames Papers on Political Economy 1981
Paul Davidson: A Technical definition of Uncertainty and the Long-Run Non-Neutrality of Money. Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 12, 1988
V. New Keynesian Economics 11. James Meade: Wage-Fixing Revisited. London, IEA 1985 12. George Akerlof, Janet Yellen: A Near Rational Model of the Business Cycle with Wage and Price Inertia. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. C -- Supplement, 1985 13. Bruce Greenwald and Joseph Stiglitz: New and Old Keynesians. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 7, No. 1, Winter 1993
Anotace
Předmět podává seminární formou přehled o vzniku a vývoji keynesovské ekonomie. Důraz je kladen na historický vývoj keynesovské makroekonomie, na její teoretická východiska a vývojové tendence. Předmět rozvíjí poznatky ze základních kursů makroekonomie a dějin ekonomických teorií.
Student vypracuje cca 15 stránkovou esej. Na základě této eseje a s přihlédnutím k aktivitě studenta v průběhu kursu je stanovena konečná známka.