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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

by John Maynard Keynes

  • FINISHED
  • Finished July 2018
  • First published 1936

economics history

Keynes argues that total spending, not wages and prices adjusting on their own, decides the level of employment.   He makes the case for government action to fight prolonged slumps.