The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: with The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Classics of World Literature)

Truly excellent value for two of Keynes' most seminal books. The General Theory is mandated reading for any economics student, but anyone who can follow Skidelsky's monumental and brilliant three-volume biography will also find this intelligible, not least because of Keynes' enviable command of English. The appended Economic Consequences is a devastating criticism of the ludicrously excessive post-WW1 reparations demands on the Germans - and Keynes with his pointed and elegant way with words was a widely-feared past master of excoriating castigation. I rarely give 5-star ratings, but this is one.

I doubt that Keynes' writings will ever be as popular as other economists or their interpreters and popularisers, like for instance Adam Smith is, he is also a more modern writer than Smith so the writing is less literary or eloquent perhaps but I tend to think that Keynes was much more in possession of economic and political facts than Smith was (or some of his more orthodox supporters should be, in fairness Smith's writing is between description and prescription/advocacy for something not yet entirely realised in fact). The book has no index, which is a shame, there is a great introduction, the book itself I would not fault in terms of pace, style and content. I think that Keynes wrote good factual economics which should make sense both to the academic or scholarly reader and also the average, tuned in reading member of the public too. It is good to see a cheaper "popular" edition of the book available as it is a book which is often cited or quoted and presented in part rather than in full.

Difficult to read at places but generally enlightening. Can definitely say reading this has put macroeconomics (and even micro) into a better perspective than done so by the A Level textbook. Would recommend skipping Chapter 2 as that's mostly technical.

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Bought this as we are in a keynesian moment with the economy. Have always taken an interest in business and economics so thought would have a read . Basically it is very interesting but can be hard work so have skipped some parts but feel I have got the overall feel for the arguments made. To me the end book Consequences of the Peace is the most interesting as also took an interest in the origins of WW1 and WW2 and found this an excellent read let’s you know on so many levels how we got here politically etc.

Excellent book which is applicable today in the present crisis

A great and important book. Unfortunately, it is really for people with serious economics background.

I have not finished the book yet. The problem I ran into is that the analysis is rather mechanistic. I can cope with the maths, as I am an engineer, but am not sure that treating an economy as a mechanism is the right way to go about the job. Obviously, the sums have to add up, in the sense of balancing accounts, and there are statistics which can be helpful in describing what is going in the economy. Keynes was quite an expert on statistics, I understand.