The General Theory

Piero V. Mini
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Piero V. Mini: Bryant College

Chapter 9 in Keynes, Bloomsbury and The General Theory, 1991, pp 158-191 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The foregoing survey of the factors that shaped Keynes’s consciousness should by now have put us in that ‘sympathetic’ frame of mind, which, according to Keynes, is the precondition for understanding a work like The General Theory. At the very least we should appreciate the fact that the man was singular, idiosyncratic, eccentric and that the intellectual forces shaping his mind were not the ones impinging on the average contemporary scholar. We should therefore not be surprised to find some of his economic ideas ‘peculiar’ and even ‘outlandish’. Let us review the main peculiarities of Keynes’s consciousness and of the forces that helped shape it.

Keywords: Interest Rate; General Theory; Stock Exchange; Money Supply; Full Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11651-5_9

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