The place of portfolio management in the Keynesian canon

The role of securities in the optimal allocation of risk–bearing

J E Woods

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2018, vol. 42, issue 1, 231-257

Abstract: Recent publications, such as the two-volume Oxford Handbook of Post-Keynesian Economics (Harcourt and Kreisler, 2013) and the Elgar Companion to Post-Keynesian Economics (King, 2012), provide authoritative summaries of the current state of the art on a very wide range of relevant topics: in particular, the Contents pages of these books define the field as seen by adherents, the obvious implication being that those topics excluded have not yet acquired the necessary status by passing appropriate academic tests of relevance and coherence inter alia. The focus of this article, Portfolio Management, is on one of these omitted topics. Starting from the fundamental recognition of uncertainty, we examine the whole range of characteristics of the Keynesian Approach, demonstrating the coherence and applicability of its multidimensional nature, in the process pointing, by contrast, to the one-dimensional sterility of the conventional approach. Our general conclusion is that there is a rightful place in the Keynesian canon for Portfolio Management, by which we mean not only Investment Management but also Speculative Management, where these two qualifiers are used in the Keynes–Graham sense.

Keywords: Portfolio management; J. M. Keynes; Benjamin Graham; uncertainty; investment; speculation; the Margin of Safety; investment-risk; diversification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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