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Keynes as an Economist, World System Planner and Social Philosopher
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TOSHIAKI HIRAI
.
Keynes as an Economist, World System Planner and Social Philosopher
.
2024.Palgrave Macmillan
,
Switzerland
. pp. 447
. ISBN 9783031401343.

Peter Clarke
Contributions to Political Economy, bzae013, https://doi.org/10.1093/cpe/bzae013
Published:

04 July 2024
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Extract

This substantial volume collects a number of important scholarly contributions from the distinguished Japanese economist Professor Toshiaki Hirai. These 15 chapters were originally published in various specialized journals, not only European and American but also Japanese (in the latter case now translated by the author). This formidable web of learning, it must be said, is not always easy to penetrate through the system of references that the author meticulously supplies, seeking to specify the relationship between the original publications and the present text; but nobody can doubt his own formidable scholarship or his magisterial grip upon the niceties and nuances of the disputes and differences of interpretation in his chosen field.
The book is in three parts. The first examines the transformation of Keynes’s own economic theories from the time of his Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), through the Treatise on Money (1930) to the position argued in the General Theory (1936). In my own view, which may be governed by my own scholarly interests of course, this is the most arresting part of the book. But before turning to it in detail, it is only fair to acknowledge the scope of the other two parts, which indeed occupy over 200 pages of the book. In Part Two, then, close attention is directed to Keynes’s activities, chiefly as a wartime official of the British Treasury: in proposing schemes of international economic relief, for a monetary clearing union in negotiation with the USA, and for British postwar reconstruction, notably through welfare and employment policies. Here I would simply comment that the author presents a lucid synthesis of recent scholarship. In particular, the extent to which the proposals agreed at Bretton Woods in 1944 manifested the supremacy of the USA in reshaping the postwar world is clearly brought out. Even so, when Professor Hirai reports, at a key moment in the prior Anglo-American negotiations in late 1943, that ‘astonishingly, Keynes toned down his stance’, the realpolitik of this transaction is not adequately conveyed [p. 147]. The fact is that Keynes was simply accommodating to the American position because of Britain’s own relative weakness by that point in a long war.

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