Description The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money John Maynard Keynes This book is chiefly addressed to my fellow economists.
I myself held with conviction for many years the theories which I now attack, and I am not, I think, ignorant of their strong points..
My controversial passages are aimed at providing some material for an answer; and I must ask forgiveness If, in the pursuit of sharp distinctions, my controversy is itself too keen.
It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.
Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call \'the classical theory\', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new.
But I have thought it important, not only to explain my own point of view, but also to show in what respects it departs from the prevailing theory.
I wish there could have been less of the latter.
Thus I cannot achieve my object of persuading economists to re-examine critically certain of their basic assumptions except by a highly abstract argument and also by much controversy.
For if orthodox economics is at fault, the error is to be found not in the superstructure, which has been erected with great care for logical consistency, but in a lack of clearness and of generality in the pre misses.
But its main purpose is to deal with difficult questions of theory, and only in the second place with the applications of this Theory to practice.
I hope that it will be intelligible to others.
Description The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money John Maynard Keynes This book is chiefly addressed to my fellow economists
