When General Theory Met French Politics: The Historical Context of a Translation

Ghislain Deleplace ()
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Ghislain Deleplace: Université Paris 8 – LED

A chapter in 40 Years of Economics, 2025, pp 157-170 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Part of Richard Arena’s works has been devoted to the reactions of French economists to the publication of Keynes’s General Theory. In fact the French translation of this book, completed in 1939 but only published in 1942, did not originate from an academic interest but a political one: the translator, Jean de Largentaye, implemented it when, as a high-ranking public officer, he was confronted to issues related to the ruling monetary situation or a prospective plan of economic recovery. Using the private correspondence between Keynes and Largentaye and other sources of the same period, my contribution aims at clarifying the historical context in which the French translation of General Theory was prepared and published. As such it is complementing a study of the theoretical stakes of the translation that I recently published elsewhere.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-93401-8_10

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