The Economics of Keynes in Historical Context: An Intellectual History of the General Theory

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the development of Keynes's economic ideas in the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. It is the first such exclusively economic theory treatment of Keynes's career since his Collected Works was published, and his papers opened to the public. It uses that material, the historical record of the economics of Keynes's time and place and the scholarship available on Keynes's biography and philosophy to build a narrative of his ideas on econo…