{"product_id":"the-general-theory-of-employment-interest-and-money-j-m-1936-keynes-draft","title":"THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY BY JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES 1936 FIRST EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003e[KEYNES. JOHN MAYNARD].\u003cstrong\u003e The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFIRST UK EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (22 x 14 x 3.5 cm); pp. xii, 403. English text. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth covers, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, rules continuing to covers in blind; half-title; printed footnotes. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight, secure, and square. Covers and contents beautifully preserved. A faint hint of spotting to fore edge. Without previous ownership markings and lacking the dust jacket. Scarce thus. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition of Keynes's last major text and chief theoretical work. The General Theory was written in the aftermath of the Great Depression, when the old economic order was widely seen to have failed. Keynes argued that government must intervene in the economy, directing wages, investment, and demand, in order to achieve full employment beyond the boom-and-bust cycle. A middle way was thus found between the laissez-faire policy of classical political economy and the complete state control of socialist economic theory. Keynes's system of controlled capitalism was embraced by the political left and right across Western Europe and the United States and so came to define much of the 20th century. Prior to the counterattack of the monetarist and neo-liberal schools, Keynes's theories became the virtually undisputed economic orthodoxy of the decades following the Second World War. Moggridge A10.1; Printing and the Mind of Man 423.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFR Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57010128224631,"sku":null,"price":2750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/files\/SAM_0368_af3bb148-9592-4753-9566-5553852e0f59.jpg?v=1776213275","url":"https:\/\/rarebooksboutique.com\/products\/the-general-theory-of-employment-interest-and-money-j-m-1936-keynes-draft","provider":"MFR Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}