ABSTRACT
The impact of Keynes on economics was so great that it has often been referred to as the ‘Keynesian revolution’, and there has been some discussion about whether it was a scientific revolution in Kuhn’s sense. The aim of this essay is to re-examine this problem in the light of Kuhn’s later discussions on paradigms; particular attention will be paid to the identification of the scientific community and the role of language in the revolution. The problems of applying the concept of paradigm, in the fuzzy sense used in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, to the Keynesian case are explained in the first section; the three possible scientific communities are then examined; the role of language in them is studied in the third section. The final section contains some concluding remarks.
