Keynesian Historiography and the Anti-Semitism Question

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4773873
AutoresE Roy Weintraub (Duke University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen44
Número1
Páginas41-67
Fecha de publicación2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory of Political Economy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-2702 • E-ISSN: 1527-1919
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00182702-1504050
OpenAlexW3121848447
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas22

Historians' treatment of John Maynard Keynes's putative anti-Semitism raises complex historiographic issues. Melvin W. Reder's 2000 HOPE article "The Anti-Semitism of Some Eminent Economists" considered whether the term ambivalent anti-Semitism could be applied variously to John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, and Friedrich Hayek by arguing that those three important economists evinced attitudes or made remarks that today would be characterized as anti-Semitic. I am not concerned here to appraise Reder's argument about whether the label "anti-Semitic," whether "ambivalent" or not, is usefully attached to Keynes. I rather am concerned with the issue of how Keynesian historiography has dealt with the anti-Semitism question. That is, I am concerned with the role that Keynes's possible anti-Semitism has played in Keynesian scholarship and how the community of Keynes scholars has treated that allegation

Allegation · Ambivalence · Argument (complex analysis · Economics · Historiography · Keynesian economics · Microfoundations · Political science · Positive economics · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Economic Theory and Institutions · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology