Funding economic research in the modern era
Imagine you are one of the founding fathers of economics, how do you fund the publication of your research? Apparently crowd-funding! Professor Rod O’Donnell from the University of Technology in Sydney has started a crowd-funding project to get all the writings of John Maynard Keynes published. Despite his notoriety and extensive contributions to the school of economic thought, important writings by Keynes remain unpublished. These cover his contributions to economics, philo