{"product_id":"general-theory-of-employment-interest-and-money-keynes","title":"The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | John Maynard Keynes","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: The Economic Consequences of the Peace | John Maynard Keynes\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)\u003c\/strong\u003e is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1936. \u003c\/strong\u003eBut its ideas had been forming for decades—as a student at Cambridge, Keynes had written to a friend of his love for 'Free Trade and free thought'. Keynes's limpid style, concise prose, and vivid descriptions have helped to keep his ideas alive—as have the novelty and clarity, at times even the ambiguity, of his macroeconomic vision. He was troubled, above all, by high unemployment rates and large disparities in wealth and income.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly by curbing both, he thought, could individualism, 'the most powerful instrument to better the future', be safeguarded. The twenty-first century may yet prove him right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Economic Consequences of the Peace\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e(1919)\u003c\/strong\u003e, Keynes elegantly and acutely exposes the folly of imposing austerity on a defeated and struggling nation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51512847794491,"sku":"1840227478","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/9781840227475.jpg?v=1785530519","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/general-theory-of-employment-interest-and-money-keynes","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}