Readings on the net

Students who wish to deepen their understanding of the debate between Keynes and the monetarists ought to read the excellent essay by Milton Friedman on Maynard Keynes written in 1989 originally published in German in a publication called the Laissez-faire City Times . The English version is available at geo-cities. The URL is www.geocities.com/ecocorner/intelarea/mfl.html?.Friedman, of course disagrees with Keynes but clearly sees him as a brilliant economist who had a profound influence on the discipline."Rereading the General Theory has...reminded me what a great economist Keynes was and how much more I sympathize with his approach and aims than with those of many of his followers."
Another very good essay on Keynesian economics from a Keynesian somewhat neo-classical perspective is by Alan Blinder, Professor of Economics at Princeton and former vice chair of the US Federal Reserve. It is published in the The concise Encyclopedia of Economics available on the net at www.econlib.org/library/Enc/KeynesianEconomics.html

Another excellent source of material is the New School for Social research Dept. of economics History of economic thought site . The URL is cepa.newschool.edu/het. It contains an excellent discussion of Say's law , for example. see the notes at the end of the discussion where there is a link to   a very good piece by Louis Uchitele of the New York Times on the Say's law controversy.