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Keynes: Contemporary Responses to the General Theory (Key Issues Series) by Backhouse, Roger, 1951- is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (published February, 1936) is arguably the most influential and controversial economics book of the 20th century. In it, Keynes claimed to have undermined the foundations of orthodox economics and to have developed a new way of thinking about unemployment. Some (often young) economists took up Keynesian ideas, whilst others were hostile. There was also controversy over what Keynes was saying.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Backhouse, Roger, 1951-
- Publisher
- South Bend, Ind. : St. Augustine's Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781855066106
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Economics, Memoir, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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