{"product_id":"the-general-theory-of-employment-interest-and-money","title":"The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: A Reader's Companion","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"t-rte\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn engaging chapter-by-chapter guide to the most important economics text of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Maynard Keynes’s\u003ci\u003e General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money\u003c\/i\u003e revolutionized economics. But it can be dense and cryptic, an intimidating work for the uninitiated. This companion volume approaches the argument methodically and with clarity, explaining obscure terms and breaking down Keynes’s ideas and their significance for his time and ours. Award-winning economist and author Geoff Mann allows readers to comprehend why the word “Keynesian” has become so contentious today — and so important.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I can think of no single book that has so changed the conception held by economists as to the working of the capitalist system as\u003cem\u003e The General Theory.\" \u003c\/em\u003eRobert Heilbroner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe General Theory \u003c\/em\u003eis nothing less than an epic journey out of intellectual darkness. That, as much as its continuing relevance to economic policy, is what makes it a book for the ages. Read it, and marvel.\" Paul Krugman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe General Theory \u003c\/em\u003ecombined towering intellectual achievement with immediate practical relevance to a global economic crisis. There has been nothing like Keynes’s achievement in the annals of social science.\" Paul Krugman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Over the past 70 years \u003cem\u003eThe General Theory\u003c\/em\u003e has shaped the views even of those who haven’t heard of it, or who believe they disagree with it.\" Paul Krugman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Keynes’s magnum opus of 1936 completely recast macro-economic thinking about government policy.\" Tony Judt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Economists may have forgotten \u003cem\u003eThe General Theory\u003c\/em\u003e and moved on, but economics has not outgrown it, or the informal mode of argument that it exemplifies, which can illuminate nooks and crannies that are closed to mathematics. Keynes's masterpiece is many things, but 'outdated' it is not.” Richard Posner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe General Theory \u003c\/em\u003ewas a work of genius.\" Paul Samuelson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money \u003c\/em\u003eis a work of enduring fascination. It is simple and subtle, obscure and profound.\" Robert Skidelsky (Keynes’ biographer)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe General Theory \u003c\/em\u003ebroke in on the established structure of economic thought, as it was termed, with a glass-shattering effect.\" John Kenneth Galbraith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe General Theory \u003c\/em\u003estruck off the shackles of laissez-faire ideology. Keynes knew that new freedom would raise fresh problems and require fresh solutions.\" Joan Robinson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoff Mann\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC, where he teaches political economy and economic geography. He is a regular contributor to the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Long Run We Are All Dead: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDisassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eClimate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future \u003c\/i\u003e(with Joel Wainwright), which won the 2019 Sussex International Theory Prize. Mann is a senior fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and a Guggenheim Fellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43945858138205,"sku":"9781804295922","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/GeneralTheoryofEmployment_InterestandMoney.jpg?v=1770932511","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/fr\/products\/the-general-theory-of-employment-interest-and-money","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}