The econometric challenge to Keynes: arguments and contradictions in the early debates about a late issueFootnote^*

^*A preliminary version of this paper was submitted to the annual conference of the European Society of the History of Economic Thought. Marseille February 1997, and parts of it were previously discussed in a seminar at Amsterdam University, January 1997. I thank the Participants and in particular MaryMorgan, Great Reuten Robert Went and Marcel Boumans, for their comments and criticisms. I also thank Jose Luis Cardoso and two anonymous referees for their suggestions.

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