At Cambridge we are lucky enough to have a working analogue computer developed in the 1950s which represents money as flowing around the national economy.
The Keynes Fund has announced it's 21st Call for Projects. The deadline for project proposals is 30th September 2022. Please see the Keynes Fund site for the criteria and details of the project applications process.
For the first time this year, the Keynes Lecture was delivered in a hybrid format, allowing both those at home to attend, and a select audience.
Professor Geoff Harcourt has had a prolific and distinguished academic career spanning almost 60 years, including many years at Cambridge University. One of his first lectureships at Cambridge came via the celebrated economist Joan Robinson.
The Keynes Fund for Applied Economics promotes innovative and path breaking quality research in economics and finance. It now has an additional Small Awards Scheme to support PhD students (whose research fall within the remit of the Fund) in building networks and disseminating their research at conferences and workshops, giving a grant of up to £2000.
The Keynes Fund has announced it's 19th Call for Projects. The deadline for project proposals is 30th September 2021. Please see the Keynes Fund site for the criteria and details of the project applications process.
“We’re here for anyone at Cambridge who has a good research project, but is struggling to find the financial support to carry it out,” says Dr. Toke Aidt, a University Reader and Director of the Keynes Fund.
"I'm delighted by this appointment. Sriya will be a very capable Deputy Director, and I look forward to working with her over the next five years,” says Dr. Toke Aidt, a University Reader and Director of the Keynes Fund at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
There is little doubt that John Maynard Keynes fundamentally shaped economics and policymaking in the twentieth century. Less appreciated is that he owes some of his central insights to a brilliant Cambridge polymath who died in 1930 at age 26.
From the Guardian website:
Professor Christina Romer (Berkeley) was interviewed by PhD Candidate Maarten de Ridder about her the 2019-2020 Keynes Lecture on "The Narrative Approach to Establishing Causation in Macroeconomics", as well as on fiscal policy in the Obama administrat
To celebrate the centenary of "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" by John Maynard Keynes, the Marshall Library has been publishing a series of blogs about the publication, reception and reaction to Keynes's famous book.
Cambridge-INET is proud to announce a major conference on Keynes’s 1919 book. The book is celebrated as a brilliant piece of advocacy by one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent economists.
In 1924 John Maynard Keynes, who invented macroeconomics, used a biographical essay about his mentor Alfred Marshall to muse on the qualities of a good economist.