Reading Keynes in Buenos Aires: Prebisch and the Dynamics of Capitalism
探讨凯恩斯对普雷维什的影响,普雷维什认同凯恩斯对市场失灵和反周期政策的诊断,但批评其利率和乘数理论,因他更关注动态和周期问题,这解释了他为何被称为拉丁美洲凯恩斯却侧重长期发展。
Keynes had a profound influence on Prebisch in terms of the diagnosis about the main failures of market economies and the need to pursue pro-active and anti-cyclical policies. However, Prebisch was critical of some aspects of Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, in particular on the theory of interest and the multiplier. His attitude can be explained by a difference in the object and method of analysis. Prebisch’s interests focussed on dynamics and the cycle, themes that were peripheral to Keynes’s central message. Prebisch’s Keynesian influence and his rejection of some aspects of Keynes’s magnum opus explains why at the same time that Prebisch is often described as the Latin American Keynes, he is portrayed as concerned mainly with the long-run development problem of Latin America and without proper consideration to demand factors as fundamental determinants of output and employment.