John Maynard Keynes The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money  (1936)

 

[Note on HET Edition]

[Index A-K and Index L-Z]

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THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY

by John Maynard Keynes

1936, London: Macmillan.

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- CONTENTS -
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Preface				p.v
BOOK I - Introduction				p.1
Chapter 1 - The General Theory				p.3
Chapter 2 - The Postulates of Classical Economics				p.4
Chapter 3 - The Principle of Effective Demand				p.23
BOOK II - Definitions and Ideas				p.35
Chapter 4 - The Choice of Units				p.37
Chapter 5 - Expectation as Determining Output and Employment				p.46
Chapter 6 - The Definition of Income Saving and Investment				p.52
Appendix to Ch. 6 - Appendix on User Cost				p.66
Chapter 7 - The Meaning of Saving and Investment Further Considered				p.74
BOOK III - The Propensity to Consume				p.87
Chapter 8 - The Propensity to Consume I: the Objective Factors				p.89
Chapter 9 - The Propensity to Consume II: The Subjective Factors				p.107
Chapter 10 - The Marginal Propensity to Consume and the Multiplier				p.113
BOOK IV - The Inducement to Invest				p.133
Chapter 11 - The Marginal Efficiency of Capital				p.135
Chapter 12 - The State of Long-Term Expectation				p.147
Chapter 13 - The General Theory of the Rate of Interest				p.165
Chapter 14 - The Classical Theory of the Rate of Interest				p.175
Appendix to Ch. 14 - Appendix on the Rate of Interest in Marshall's Principles of Economics, Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy and elsewhere				p.186
Chapter 15 - The Psychological and Business Incentives to Liquidity				p.194
Chapter 16 - Sundry Observations on the Nature of Capital				p.210
Chapter 17 - The Essential Properties of Interest and Money				p.222
Chapter 18 - The General Theory of Employment Re-stated				p.245
BOOK V - Money-Wages and Prices				p.255
Chapter 19 - Changes in Money-Wages				p.257
Appendix to Ch. 19 - Appendix on Prof. Pigou's Theory of Unemployment				p.272
Chapter 20 - The Employment Function				p.280
Chapter 21 - The Theory of Prices				p.292
BOOK VI - Short Notes Suggested by the General Theory				p.311
Chapter 22 - Notes on the Trade Cycle				p.313
Chapter 23 - Notes on Mercantilism, the Usury Laws, Stamped Money and the Theories of Under-Consumption				p.333
Chapter 24 - Concluding Notes on the Social Philosophy Towards which the General Theory Might Lead.				p.372
INDEX
Index A-K				p.385
Index L-Z				p.394
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HET Appendix: Additional writings by John Maynard Keynes related to the General Theory, its composition and replies:

• "A Monetary Theory of Production", 1933, Festschrift für Arthur Spiethoff

• "Fluctuations in Net Investment in the United States", 1936, Economic Journal (Sep)  [pdf] (corrections from Kuznets)

• "The General Theory of Employment", 1937, Quarterly Journal of Economics. (Feb) (response to Viner. also Taussig, Leontief, Robertson) [pdf]

• "Alternative Theories of the Rate of Interest", 1937, Economic Journal (June) (response to Ohlin, Hicks, Robertson, Hawtrey)  [pdf]

• "The 'Ex Ante' Theory of the Rate of Interest", 1937, Economic Journal (Dec) (response to Ohlin and Robertson)  [pdf]

• "Relative Movements of Real Wages and Output", 1939, Economic Journal (Mar) (response to Dunlop and Tarshis)  [pdf]

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