Convergences in Keynes and Wittgenstein's Later Views

Authors

John B. Davis, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

16 p.

Publication Date

1996

Publisher

Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Source Publication

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Source ISSN

0967-2567

Abstract

This paper examines the intellectual influences of Ludwig Wittgenstein and John Maynard Keynes upon one another. It focuses on their later philosophical thinking, and argues for a number of convergences in their news. First discussed are their respective doubts about their early views, developed in early twentieth century Cambridge. Their later philosophical positions are represented as a shared reaction to problems in their early new. Attention is given to conventions and language-games, rules and social practices. average expectation and family resemblance, and intersubjectivity and private language. The paper closes with comments on the climate of thought in Cambridge in the 1930s.

Comments

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1996): 433-448. DOI:10.1080/10427719600000041.

Recommended Citation

Davis, John B., "Convergences in Keynes and Wittgenstein's Later Views" (1996). Economics Faculty Research and Publications. 223.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/econ_fac/223