Keynesian economics is a macroeconomic theory that advocates for active government intervention to manage economic cycles, particularly during recessions and depressions. Developed by British ...

Macroeconomics studies an overall economy or market system, its behaviors, the factors that drive it, and how to improve its performance.

What was the relation between state and society during the “Keynesian” period? What distinguished US Keynesian planning was its concern with the reproductive sector. This was because US capital did ...

As usual in a slump, global policy makers have relied on the spending measures associated with John Maynard Keynes to steer their economies through the coronavirus crisis. Perhaps none has done so ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is known as an easy-money, fiscal and monetary dove who is going to spend Japan out of trouble ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hersh Shefrin analyzes how psychology impacts markets and policy. John Maynard Keynes’ book The General Theory of Interest, ...

Should the Federal Reserve emulate Canada in respect to the central bank's operating system? Marc Lavoie, a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa and the author of a recent article on the ...

Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s newly unveiled national spending plan is the biggest “Budget giveaway” since 1992, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). The Budget 2020 in a nutshell Rishi ...