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Title:
The general theory of employment, interest, and money
Author:
Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946.
ISBN:
9780230004764
Publication Information:
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan for the Royal Economic Society, 2007.
Physical Description:
xxxviii, 428 p. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Reprinted with an Editorial introduction and prefaces to the German, Japanese and French eds. from the 1974 Collected writings printing and a new introduction by Paul Krugman - Main text originally published: London : Macmillan, 1936.
Contents:
Book I. Introduction -- 1. The General Theory -- 2. The Postulates of the Classical Economics -- 3. The Principle of Effective Demand -- Book II. Definitions and Ideas -- 4. The Choice of Units -- 5. Expectation as Determining Output and Employment -- 6. The Definition of Income, Saving and Investment -- App. On User Cost -- 7. The Meaning of Saving and Investment, Further Considered -- Book III. The Propensity to Consume -- 8. The Propensity to Consume: I. The Objective Factors -- 9. The Propensity to Consume: II. The Subjective Factors -- 10. The Marginal Propensity to Consume and the Multiplier -- Book IV. The Inducement to Invest -- 11. The Marginal Efficiency of Capital -- 12. The State of Long-Term Expectation -- 13. The General Theory of the Rate of Interest -- 14. The Classical Theory of the Rate of Interest -- App. On the Rate of Interest in Marshall's Principles of Economics, Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and elsewhere -- 15. The Psychological and Business Incentives to Liquidity -- 16. Sundry Observations on the Nature of Capital -- 17. The Essential Properties of Interest and Money -- 18. The General Theory of Employment Re-Stated -- Book V. Money-Wages and Prices -- 19. Changes in Money-Wages -- App. On Prof. Pigou's Theory of Uneployment -- 20. The Employment Function -- 21. The Theory of Prices -- Book VI. Short Notes Suggested by the General Theory --22. Notes on the Trade Cycle -- 23. Notes on Mercantilism, the Usury Laws, Stamped Money and Theories of Under-Consumption -- 24. Concluding Notes on the Social Philosophy towards which the General Theory might lead -- Appendices.
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