Keynes: Contemporary Responses to the General Theory (Key Issues S., #21)

by Professor Roger E. Backhouse

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Keynes's "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" (published February, 1936) is arguably the most influential and controversial economics book of the 20th century. In it, Keynes claimed to have undermined the foundations of orthodox economics and to have developed a new way of thinking about unemployment. Some (often young) economists took up Keynesian ideas, whilst others were hostile. There was also controversy over what Keynes was saying. This volume brings together 40 reviews published before the end of 1936, showing how a range of economists and political and literary figures responded to the book. As they are all early reviews, they pre-date the articles (notably by J.R. Hicks) that appeared early in 1937 and which provided the framework (the so-called IS-LM model) through which economists have come to interpret Keynes's ideas.
  • ISBN10 1855066114
  • ISBN13 9781855066113
  • Publish Date 1 March 1999
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 14 March 2000
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Thoemmes Continuum
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 250
  • Language English