The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
This book was originally published by Macmillan in 1936. It was voted the top Academic Book that Shaped Modern Britain by Academic Book Week (UK) in 2017, and in 2011 was placed on Time Magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. R
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THE
GENERAL THEORY Introduction by
OF
Paul Krugman
EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST Afterword by
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Robert Skidelksy
MONEY JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
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Preface
This book is chiefly addressed to my fellow economists. I hope that it will be intelligible to others. But its main purpose is to deal with difficult questions of theory, and only in the second place with the applications of this theory to practice. For if orthodox economics is at fault, the error is to be found not in the superstructure, which has been erected with great care for logical consistency, but in a lack of clearness and of generality in the premisses. Thus I cannot achieve my object of persuading economists to re-examine critically certain of their basic assumptions except by a highly abstract argument and also by much controversy. I wish there could have been less of the latter. But I have thought it important, not only to explain my own point of view, but also to show in what respects it departs from the prevailing theory. Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call ‘the classical theory’, will fluctuate, I expect, between a b
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