The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0156347113 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 403 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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complex, deep, and sophisticated doc peterson In spite of Keynes' caveat in the preface ("This book is chiefly addressed to my fellow economists. I hope that it will be intelligible to others.") I owed it to myself to give it a read. _The General Theory_ is dense reading. Fortunately, Keynes is clear in his exposition, his positions well articulated.As a non-economist, I was struck by several things. First was Keynes' demolition of "classical" economic theory on the means of increasing employment, political economy, and the relationship of supply to demand. (Think Say, Malthus, and especially Ricardo and Pigou.) This was totally unexpected, but given the revolutionary n. Waste of paper Nearly unreadably small type. It looks like it was photocopied and reduced from a "full-sized" book. Also, nearly every formula in the footnotes is unreadable because parts are missing -- like someone who didn't understand math at all made a haphazard attempt to "fix" the poor typesetting and then gave up.. Paul H. said Review of the edition, not the book. This edition is very obviously printed on demand by a paperback mill and is actually harder to read because of it! It's filled with grammatical errors and inexplicable changes in font and size. Words are smooshed together and the charts are all pixelated and artifacted. It looks like a meme that your aunt would post on your facebook wall basically. Check out the bizarre acknowledgment at the beginning! Also no publisher is listed anywhere in the book and the printing date is the date I ordered it, haha
Read it, and marvel.' (Paul Krugman) . The General Theory is nothing less than an epic journey out of intellectual darkness. That, as much as its continuing relevance to economic policy, is what makes it a book for the ages
Heilbroner). Keynes profoundly influenced the New Deal and created the basis for classic economic theory. “I can think of no single book that has so changed the conception held by economists as to the working of the capitalist system” (Robert L. Index.
His two great works, A Treatise on Money and The General Theory of Unemployment, Interest, and Money, revolutionized the study and practice of economics and changed monetary policy after World War II.. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was an economist, mathematician, civil servant, educator, journalist, and a world-renowned author