The Curious Career of David Bensusan-Butt
追溯了凯恩斯助手大卫·本苏桑-巴特的学术与政策生涯,他在税收和增长理论上有贡献,但试图重塑现代经济学方法论的努力以失败告终。
Abstract Anointed by Keynes to complete the index to The General Theory in 1935, David Bensusan-Butt made an early claim to academic fame. His subsequent career dabbling within the worlds of public policy and research was similar to that of his idol, Keynes. He made lasting contributions to taxation policy and at a higher level of abstraction, growth theory. As an aesthete, Bensusan-Butt embraced Keynes's skepticism of the Benthamite calculus. His lifetime preoccupation to recast the methodology of modern economics ended in failure.