Keynes
Contemporary Responses to the General Theory
Published on 1. March 1999
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Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-85506-611-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
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978-1-85506-611-3 (9781855066113)
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Part 1 Newspapers: "Mr Keynes on interest rates - social control of investment essential" in Daily Herald, 4 February 1936, Francis Williams; "What does Mr Keynes want - poison gas? in Daily Worker, 8 April 1936, Henry Douglas; "Mr J.M. Keynes on cheap money" in Financial News, 4 February 1936, Henry Douglas; "Mr Keynes attacks the citadel" in Manchester Guardian Commercial, 14 February 1936, T.S. Ashton; "A Daniel come to judgment - Mr Keynes on currency? in Observer, 16 February 1936, F.A.L.; "An economic bombshell - Mr Keynes' cure for employment" in Star, 4 February 1936, F.A.L.; "The blunders of economists" in Sunday Times, 23 February 1936, Hartley Withers; "Employment and money - Mr Keynes's views" in The Times, 10 March 1936, Hartley Withers; "Mr J.M. Keynes joins the heretics" in Western Mail, 13 February 1936, H.A. Marquand. Part 2 General literary and professional journals: "Mr Keynes on money" in Banker, April 1935, Douglas Jay; "Mr Keynes on the causes of unemployment" in Cambridge Review, 21 February 1936, Austin Robinson; "Half Way House" in Canadian Forum (volume 16), May 1936, Virginius Coe; "Keynes comments on money in Christian Century (volume 53), 22 July 1936, Henry C. Simons; review of "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" in Criterion (volume 16), October 1936, Montgomery Butchard; "Mr Keynes on money" in Economist (volume 122), 29 February 1036, E.A.G. Robinson; "A challenge to orthodoxy" in Fortnightly Review (Volume 145) 1936, Arnol Plant; "The conversions of Keynes" in G.K.'s Weekly, 26 March 1936, Montague Fordham; "Professor Durbin quarrels with Professor Keynes" in Labour, April 1936, E.F.M. Durbin; "Mr Keynes as Copernicus" in London Mercury (volume 33), April 1936, R.C.K. Ensor; "The mainsprings of capitalism" in Nation (volume 142), 15 April 1936, Maxwell Stewart; "Mr Keynes's General Theory" in New Republic (volume 86), 29 April 1936, Horace Taylor; "Mr Keynes beats the band" in New Statesman and Nation (volume 11), 15 February 1936), G.D.H. Cole; "Mr Keynes and the Labour movement" in Nineteenth Century (volume 120), A.L. Rowse; "Keynes's economics" in Saturday Review of Literature (volume 13), 4 April 1936, Fabian Franklin; "Mr Keynes's attacks on economists" in Spectator (volume 156), 14 February 1936, Hubert D. Henderson; "Employment and money - dilemmas of saving and spending" in Times Literary Supplement (no. 1780), 14 March 1935. Part 3 Specialist academic journals: review of "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" in American Economic Review (volume 26, September 1936, Charles O. Hardy; from "M Keynes' Theory of Employment" in Economic Journal (volume 46), June 1936, John R. Hicks; from "Mr J.M. Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" in Economica (volume 3), May 1936, Arthur C. Pigou. (Part contents).