Viner was a noted opponent ofJohn Maynard Keynes during theGreat Depression. While he agreed with the policies of government spending pushed by Keynes, Viner argued that Keynes's analysis was flawed and would not stand in the long run.
Viner is further known for having added the termstrade creation andtrade diversion to the canon of economics in 1950. He also made important contributions to the theory of international trade and to the history of economic thought. While he was at Chicago, Viner co-edited theJournal of Political Economy withFrank Knight.
His work,Studies in the Theory of International Trade (1937), discusses thehistory of economic thought and is a historical source for theBullionist controversy in 19th-century Britain.[19]
Viner spoke at the Conference on Atomic Energy Control in 1945, stating "that theatomic bomb was the cheapest way yet devised of killing human beings" and that atomic bombs "will be peacemaking in effect," perhaps making him the founder ofnuclear deterrence.[20]
Frederick C. Mills; Jacob H. Hollander; Jacob Viner; E.B. Wilson; Wesley C. Mitchell;F.W. Taussig; T.S. Adams; John D. Black; John Candler Cobb (1928). "The Present Status and Future Prospects of Quantitative Economics".American Economic Review.18 (1):28–45.JSTOR1811547.
"Mills' Behavior of Prices", 1929,QJE
"Costs Curves and Supply Curves,"Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 3, pp. 23–46. Reprinted in R. B. Emmett, ed. 2002,The Chicago Tradition in Economics, 1892–1945, Routledge, v. 6, pp.192–215.
"The Doctrine of Comparative Costs", 1932,WWA
"Inflation as a Possible Remedy for the Depression", 1933,Proceedings of Institute of Public Affairs, Univ. of Georgia
"The Earlier Letters of John Stuart Mill", 1963,Univ of Toronto Quarterly
"The Economist in History", 1963,American Economic Review, 53(2), pp.1–22
"The United States as a Welfare State", 1963, in Higgenbotham, editor,Man, Science, Learning and Education
Problems of Monetary Control, 1964.
"Comment on my 1936 Review of Keynes", 1964, in Lekachman, editor,Keynes's General Theory
"Introduction", in J. Rae,Life of Adam Smith, 1965.
"Adam Smith", 1968, in Sills, editor,International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences
"Mercantilist Thought", 1968, in Sills, editor,International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences
"Man's Economic Status", 1968, in Clifford, editor,Man Versus Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
"Satire and Economics in the Augustan Age of Satire", 1970, in Miller et al., editors,The Augustan Milieu
The Role of Providence in the Social Order, 1972.
Religious Thought and Economic Society: Four Chapters of an Unfinished Work by Jacob Viner, ed. by J. Melitz and D. Winch, History of Poli Econ., 1978.
^Michael Wala (1994).The Council on Foreign Relations and American Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War. Berghahn Books. p. 38.The rapporteurs of the Economic and Financial Group
Bloomfield, Arthur I. (1992). "On the Centenary of Jacob Viner's Birth: A Retrospective View of the Man and His Work".Journal of Economic Literature.30 (4):2052–2085.JSTOR2727973.
Markwell, Donald (2008).John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace. Oxford University Press.
