{"id":18680,"date":"2026-10-27T11:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=18680"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T10:38:49","slug":"critical-analysis-of-keyness-optimism-regarding-the-very-long-run-economic-possibilities-and-political-impossibilities-of-capital-accumulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/critical-analysis-of-keyness-optimism-regarding-the-very-long-run-economic-possibilities-and-political-impossibilities-of-capital-accumulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Analysis of Keynes\u2019s Optimism Regarding the Very Long Run: Economic Possibilities and Political Impossibilities of Capital Accumulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Luciano Alencar Barros<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The present paper analyzes, from the surplus approach, one famous prediction made by Keynes in \u2018Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren\u2019: that society would become so prosperous that the \u2018economic problem\u2019 would be solved, shifting human concerns towards the question of how to make use of leisure time. One century later, in a context marked by climate crisis and disruptive technological progress, revisiting this reflection appears particularly interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elibrary.imf.org\/login\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elibrary.imf.org\/cite\/$002fjournals$002f001$002f2026$002f206$002farticle-A001-en.xml\/9798229063456\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elibrary.imf.org\/login\"><\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Link%20to%20What%20Drives%20Policy%20Responses%20to%20the%202026%20Energy%20Shock%3F%20First%20Evidence%20from%20the%20IMF%20Global%20Policy%20Tracker&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elibrary.imf.org%2Fview%2Fjournals%2F001%2F2026%2F206%2Farticle-A001-en.xml\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: Review of Political Economy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09538259.2026.2724137#abstract\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/DA210A39DD78579EA2468ECC50B10B5A\/S0003055426101968a.pdf\/what-would-it-mean-to-democratize-finance-an-evaluation-of-divergent-conceptions-of-democracy-and-finance.pdf\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luciano Alencar Barros The present paper analyzes, from the surplus approach, one famous prediction made by Keynes in \u2018Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren\u2019: that society would become so prosperous that the \u2018economic problem\u2019 would be solved, shifting human concerns towards the question of how to make use of leisure time. One century later, in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-34","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18682,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18680\/revisions\/18682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}