著者

Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

出版者

The Japanease Society for the History of Economic Thought

雑誌

経済学史研究 (ISSN:18803164)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.59, no.2, pp.168-180, 2018 (Released:2019-09-02)

被引用文献数

1

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I Preface The late 1980s and early 1990s saw an upsurge of interest in Keynesʼs philo-sophical thinking, possibly favoured by the availability of the full set of the Col-lected Works, the reunion of all his papers at Kingʼs (the catalogue was com-pleted in 1993) and soon after the microfilming of all his entire papers (Cox 1995). Over the last 30 years or so a large literature has developed on the subject, which has branched out in various directions. Two main concerns can be found in this literature: (a) the question of the continuity of Keynesʼs views and ap-proach, since the early philosophical essays, through the Treatise on Probability to the General Theory; (b) how Keynesʼs economics is intertwined with his ethics and epistemology. In this paper I am focusing on a narrower topic (perfectionism and conse-quentialism in Keynesʼs ethics and political philosophy) following in the foot-steps of Yuichi Shionoya, whose contribution on the subject I revisited on the occasion of a commemoration held at the ESHET Conference in Paris, in May 2016. While much has been said in the literature on the non-consequentialist po-sition held by Keynes in ethics, less has been said on his being consequentialist in politics. Following in Shionoyaʼs footsteps, I would like to pursue the matter further, in particular on the implication for Keynesʼs economics.