KEYNES, RAMSEY, AND PRAGMATISM

IF 1.2 3区经济学 Q1 HISTORY

Journal of the History of Economic Thought Pub Date : 2023-03-02 DOI:10.1017/S1053837222000311

Bill Gerrard

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Abstract

In his recent paper in this journal, Bradley Bateman (2021) breaks with the “standard view” of Frank Ramsey’s influence on Jahn Maynard Keynes and argues that Ramsey’s pragmatist philosophical thought underpinned both Keynes’s acceptance of Ramsey’s subjective theory of probability and Keynes’s adoption of a narrative theory of the role of confidence in economic fluctuations in the General Theory. In this paper it is argued that Bateman is right both in emphasizing the influence of Ramsey’s pragmatist philosophy on Keynes’s thought during the development of the General Theory and afterwards and in arguing that the influence of Ramsey’s pragmatist philosophy partly explains Keynes’s emphasis on the importance of the state of confidence in Chapter 12 of the General Theory. However, it is argued that Ramsey’s pragmatist philosophy had a much greater influence on Keynes than acknowledged by Bateman. Furthermore, contra Bateman, Keynes’s move to a more pragmatist philosophical position does not imply that Keynes accepted Ramsey’s subjective theory of (measurable) probability.

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凯恩斯、拉姆齐和实用主义

在他最近发表在该杂志上的论文中，Bradley Bateman（2021）打破了Frank Ramsey对Jahn Maynard Keynes影响的“标准观点”，认为Ramsey的实用主义哲学思想支持了Keynes对Ramsey的主观概率理论的接受，以及Keynes在《通论》中对信心在经济波动中的作用的叙事理论。本文认为，贝特曼在《通论》发展过程中及之后强调拉姆齐的实用主义哲学对凯恩斯思想的影响是正确的，并认为拉姆齐实用主义哲学的影响在一定程度上解释了凯恩斯在《通学》第12章中对信心状态重要性的强调。然而，有人认为拉姆齐的实用主义哲学对凯恩斯的影响比贝特曼所承认的要大得多。此外，与贝特曼相反，凯恩斯转向更实用主义的哲学立场并不意味着凯恩斯接受拉姆齐的（可测量的）概率主观理论。

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought Multiple-

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