Gilles Dostaler

An Assessment of Gunnar Myrdal's Early Work in Economics

Spanning sixty years, from 1927 to 1987, Gunnar Myrdals work is both extensive and diversified. Aside from theoretical economics, it embraces many other fields such as sociology,

Keynes et la politique

Keynes’s political thought cannot be fully understood without looking at England’s political evolution in the first decades of the twentieth century. This is where we begin our paper, presenting Keynes’s concrete involvement in this evolution. In particular, we examine the complex relations between the Liberal party, of which Keynes was a lifelong member, and the Labour party, to which, with his friends in the Bloomsbury Group, he was always very close. We then look into his political thought, taking into account the influence of both Edmund Burke and the intellectual promoters of New Liberalism. These influences, as well as Keynes’s upbringing, account for the singular blend of progressivism and elitism that characterizes his thought and action and underpins what may be called the Keynesian technocracy. Mots-clés : Keynes, politique, keynésianisme, Angleterre, libéral, travailliste, conservateur, Burke, nouveau libéralisme