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Despite regularly invoking his name, experts continue to disagree about the content and meaning of Keynes' great work:
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. This guidebook introduces readers to the three main tenets of the original text: critique, alternative foundations and model.
List of contents
Foreword
Prologue to the English Edition
Previous Publications
Introduction
Chapter One The General Theory (I): Background
Keynes and His Understanding of Early 20th Century Capitalism
Chapter Two The General Theory: Background(Ii)
What Did Keynes Call Classical Theory?
Chapter Three Keynes's Critique of the Classical Theory: Limits of The Classical Theory
Chapter Four The General Theory By Keynes
Chapter Five Keynes's System: Fundamental Concepts
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Axel Kicillof (Buenos Aires, 1971) has a PhD in Economics from University of Buenos Aires. He has been a researcher at CONICET (Argentina's National Scientific and Technical Research Council) and at the Economic Research Institute (UBA), as well as Professor at several universities in Argentina. He is a specialist in History of Economic Thought and Macroeconomics. He is the author of "Fundamentos de la Teoría General", "Economía sin Corbata" y "De Smith a Keynes" ("Fundamentals of the General Theory", "Economy without a Tie" and "From Smith to Keynes". He has held the office of Minister of Economy of the Argentine Republic. He is currently a member of Argentina's national parliament, representing the City of Buenos Aires in the Chamber of Deputies.
Summary
Despite regularly invoking his name, experts continue to disagree about the content and meaning of Keynes’ great work: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. This guidebook introduces readers to the three main tenets of the original text: critique, alternative foundations and model.
