Keynes and the Distribution of Uncertainty: Lessons from the Lancashire Cotton Spinning Industry and the General Theory

John Cameron and Tidings Ndhlovu

Review of Social Economy, 1999, vol. 57, issue 1, 99-123

Abstract: This paper attempts to demonstrate that Keynes's practical writings on the crisis in the Lancashire cotton spinning industry in the 1920s were consistent with the 1930s theoretical conceptualisation of user costs in the General Theory. It is suggested that the key (common) link between these analyses is Keynes's concern with how uncertainty is distributed, in specific historical circumstances, between institutions at the levels of the firm, industry, the industry-financial institution interface, and the local and global economies. It is this concern which still has important, if not more, research and policy relevance today.

Keywords: General theory; Institutional; Keynes; Lancashire cotton industry; Uncertainty; User costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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