Introducing Keynesian Economics
Peter Pugh(Author)
Icon Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. September 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-84046-157-2 (ISBN)
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Description
John Maynard Keynes was the most brilliant and infuential economist of the 20th century. His revolutionary treatise written during the Great Depression of the 1930s, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", overturned the conventional free market vision of the time and proposed that a healthy economy and full employment depended on the total spending of consumers, business investors "and" governments. Frightened by mass unemployment, governments throughout the capitalist world pursued Keynesian policies until the late 1970s, when a new economic theory, Monetarism, became fashionable. However, Monetarism was not as successful as its advocates had precdicted, and a Keynesian approach returned to favour. Keynes "remains" the most influential economist of the 20th century. "Introducing Keynesian Economics" lucidly explains the Keynesian revolution and paints a vivid picture of Keynes the man - a brilliant scholar, a colourful member of the Apostles and the Bloomsbury Group, and an open homosexual who later married a ballerina. This book is the ideal introduction to Keynes, for both students and general readers.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Duxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 142 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84046-157-2 (9781840461572)
Copyright in bibliographic data is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or its licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions

Book
06/2009
5th Edition
Icon Books
€15.50
Shipment within 3-4 weeks