The essays address issues, including imperfect competition, pricing mechanisms, inflation, unemployment, and the regulation of international trade and finance, that are highly relevant and topical They are addressed from a Keynesian perspective, with the interface between economic theory and policy explored.

1 Introduction.- Part I Imperfect Competition.- 2 Imperfect Competition and the Marginal Principle.- 3 The Problem of Duopoly.- 4 Oxford Studies in the Price Mechanism.- Part II Keynes.- 5 The Cambridge ‘Circus’.- 6 Some Aspects of the Development of Keynes’s Thought.- 7 ‘The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money’.- Part III International Money and Trade.- 8 International Regulation of Trade and Exchanges.- 9 The International Monetary System.- 10 Historical Origins of the International Monetary Fund.- Part IV Unemployment and Inflation.- 11 Unemployment as seen by the Keynesians.- 12 Thoughts on the Behaviour of Wages and Monetarism.- 13 Inflation—A Keynesian View.

This book brings together important essays by Richard F. Kahn, Keynes’s pupil and literary executor and one of the most influential economists in the Cambridge tradition. The essays address issues – ranging from imperfect competition and pricing mechanisms to inflation, unemployment, and the regulation of international trade and finance – that remain highly relevant and topical.They are addressed from a Keynesian perspective, with exploration of the interface between economic theory and policy. The introduction, by the editors, places the essays in their own context while at the same time offering guidance in understanding their relevance to the present scenario.Richard F. Kahn: Collected Economic Essays is a fitting companion to the 1972 collection of essays, edited by Kahn himself. It will be of interest to scholars and students as a guide to the work of an outstanding economist and a great figure in the Keynesian tradition.

“Richard Kahn is of great interest to historians of economics because of his role at the centre of two of the central developments in economics in the 20th century: imperfect competition and the Keynesian revolution. This collection, including an important, previously unpublished paper from 1933, and the very helpful editorial introduction successfully illustrate the evolution of Kahn's thinking from the 1930s to the 1970s.” —Roger E. Backhouse, University of Birmingham and Erasmus University Rotterdam“A long-awaited second collection of Richard Kahn’s essays including his later reflections on Keynes and analysis of the postwar international economy and problems of unemployment and inflation – accompanied by an excellent introduction by the editors.  An important contribution to the history of economics.”—John B. Davis, University of Amsterdam and Marquette University“This valuable and fascinating collection documentsRichard Kahn's central role in the imperfect competition and Keynesian revolutions in economics, making conveniently accessible his articles on imperfect competition, on Keynes, and on inflation and unemployment, including a pathbreaking 1933 paper on imperfect competition previously published only in Italian translation. The helpful and informative editorial introduction provides a useful guide to the nature and importance of Kahn's contributions. Every economist interested in the imperfect competition and Keynesian revolutions should have this book.”—Robert W. Dimand, Brock University

Follows the plan Richard F. Kahn laid out in the 1980s for the publication of a second collection of essays Shows how Keynesian ideas developed and evolved over time Highlights ideas which can be applied to current economic issues and challenges

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