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The 68 pages that link to Keynesian economics, each with the reason it gives.

• NeoliberalismCompared with: Its postwar influence receded as neoliberal ideas gained ground during the crises of the 1970s.

• Fiscal policyNarrower topic: It provides the intellectual framework most closely associated with activist fiscal policy.

• John Maynard KeynesBroader topic: It formalizes the central ideas developed in Keynes’s major theoretical work.

• Bretton Woods systemCompared with: Keynes wanted international, not merely national, demand management; the Americans narrowed the scope.

• Laissez-faireCompared with: Keynesian policy supports intervention when private spending fails to sustain economic activity.

• Margaret ThatcherCompared with: Her government rejected demand management in favor of controlling money supply and inflation.

• Milton FriedmanCompared with: Friedman challenged postwar Keynesian accounts of money, consumption, and economic stabilization.

• Political economyCompared with: It emphasizes how public policy can counter economic downturns.

• AusterityCompared with: It supports deficit-financed stimulus when private demand is weak.

• Classical economicsCompared with: It challenged classical confidence that flexible prices and wages reliably restore full employment.

• Economic planningRelated: It supported macroeconomic steering as an alternative to directing every sector.

• FordismRelated: Postwar demand management complemented Fordist mass production in many advanced economies.

• MonetarismCompared with: Its early postwar versions gave fiscal policy a larger stabilization role than monetarists accepted.

• Neoclassical economicsCompared with: It challenges the view that flexible prices reliably restore full-employment equilibrium.

• Interwar periodRelated: Its ideas challenged reliance on automatic market adjustment during the Depression.

• Marxian economicsCompared with: Its crisis analysis centers on demand and policy, unlike Marxian accounts grounded in capitalist contradictions.

• Beveridge ReportRelated: Keynesian policy offered an economic rationale for the full-employment commitment underpinning Beveridge’s plan.

• Chicago school of economicsCompared with: Chicago monetarists challenged Keynesian explanations and prescriptions for managing economic fluctuations.

• Lucas critiqueRelated: Lucas challenged policy models that treated estimated behavioral relationships as stable across interventions.

• EconomicsCompared with: It supports demand management when private spending is insufficient to sustain output.

• Recession (economics)Related: Keynesian accounts explain recessions through insufficient demand and support demand-side remedies.

• Ludwig von MisesCompared with: Its support for active stabilization differs from Mises’s opposition to credit expansion and intervention.

• OrdoliberalismCompared with: It foregrounds macroeconomic management, while ordoliberalism centers on the rules that structure markets.

• Real business cycle theoryCompared with: Unlike real business cycle theory, Keynesian accounts commonly treat recessions as inefficient shortfalls in demand.

• Supply-side economicsCompared with: Its focus on demand management differs from supply-side emphasis on productive incentives and capacity.

• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyNarrower topic: The book establishes the central framework later developed as Keynesian economics.

• BimetallismRelated: Its policy approach offers a different response to downturns than expanding the money supply through silver coinage.

• Economic policyRelated: It supports active demand management when private spending falls sharply.

• MacroeconomicsRelated: It explains how weak spending can sustain low output and high unemployment.

• Quantity theory of moneyCompared with: Keynesian analysis allows changes in money to affect output and interest rates before prices adjust.

• Ricardian equivalenceCompared with: Keynesian accounts often predict that debt-financed tax cuts can raise demand.

• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009Related: The act became a major test case in debates over demand management during recessions.

• Dynamic stochastic general equilibriumCompared with: Its historical versions often relied less on explicit optimizing agents and model-consistent expectations.

• Postwar consensusRelated: Its case for countercyclical policy underpinned consensus commitments to full employment.

• ReaganomicsCompared with: Its demand-management tradition differs from Reaganomics’ emphasis on incentives and supply-side growth.

• Reserve army of labourCompared with: It locates unemployment primarily in demand shortfalls, unlike Marx’s structural account of labour surplus.

• Joan RobinsonNarrower topic: Robinson helped develop Keynes’s ideas beyond their initial formulation.

• Secular StagnationNarrower topic: Hansen framed stagnation as a demand problem within the emerging Keynesian tradition.

• Austrian business cycle theoryCompared with: It often explains downturns through deficient demand rather than prior credit-induced investment errors.

• Austrian school of economicsCompared with: Its macroeconomic policy prescriptions often conflict with Austrian explanations of downturns and intervention.

• Edward C. PrescottCompared with: It commonly assigns downturns a different cause than Prescott’s productivity-shock account.

• History of Economic ThoughtBroader topic: It recast economic thought after the Great Depression and reshaped macroeconomic policy.

• Laffer curveCompared with: Revenue arguments based on demand effects differ from the curve’s focus on tax-rate incentives.

• Alvin HansenNarrower topic: Hansen adapted Keynesian demand analysis to explain long-term economic weakness.

• Edmund PhelpsCompared with: Phelps revised short-run Keynesian analysis by making inflation expectations central to unemployment.

• Fiscal conservatismCompared with: It can support deficit spending during downturns, unlike strict balanced-budget approaches.

• James TobinNarrower topic: Tobin developed influential Keynesian analyses of monetary policy and economic stabilization.

• Robert MundellCompared with: Mundell’s policy models examine when fiscal or monetary intervention works, questions central to Keynesian economics.

• Trickle-down economicsCompared with: It supports stimulating demand directly when private spending is weak.

• Christopher A. PissaridesCompared with: Pissarides’s framework focuses on matching frictions, complementing demand-centered explanations of unemployment.