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The General Theory

In: Keynes, Bloomsbury and The General Theory

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  • Piero V. Mini

    (Bryant College)

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The foregoing survey of the factors that shaped Keynes’s consciousness should by now have put us in that ‘sympathetic’ frame of mind, which, according to Keynes, is the precondition for understanding a work like The General Theory. At the very least we should appreciate the fact that the man was singular, idiosyncratic, eccentric and that the intellectual forces shaping his mind were not the ones impinging on the average contemporary scholar. We should therefore not be surprised to find some of his economic ideas ‘peculiar’ and even ‘outlandish’. Let us review the main peculiarities of Keynes’s consciousness and of the forces that helped shape it.

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  • Piero V. Mini, 1991. "The General Theory," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Keynes, Bloomsbury and The General Theory, chapter 9, pages 158-191, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11651-5_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11651-5_9
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    1. Roberto Marchionatti, 2010. "J. M. Keynes, thinker of economic complexity," History of Economic Ideas, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma, vol. 18(2), pages 115-146.
    2. Döring Thomas, 2013. "John Maynard Keynes als Verhaltensökonom – illustriert anhand seiner Analyse des Versailler Vertrags / John Maynard Keynes as Behavioral Economist – Represented by his Analysis of the Treaty of Versai," ORDO. Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, De Gruyter, vol. 64(1), pages 27-52, January.
    3. Amy Koritz & Douglas Koritz, 2001. "Checkmating the Consumer: Passive Consumption and the Economic Devaluation of Culture," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 45-62.
    4. Roger E. Backhouse & Bradley W. Bateman, 2009. "Keynes and Capitalism," History of Political Economy, Duke University Press, vol. 41(4), pages 645-671, Winter.

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