Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-264) and index.
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The relative decline of the British economy -- Wicksell's influences on Keynes and his contemporaries -- The life of Keynes -- From the Tract to the Treatise -- The Treatise -- After the Treatise -- The turning point -- Searching for a new theory of employment -- Establishment of the investment and consumption theories -- The eve of the General theory -- The proofing process (I) : from 'the pre-first proof typescript' (summer 1934) to 'galley 1(III)' (June-July 1935) -- The proofing process (II) : 'the great revision' and the 1935 Michaelmas lectures-- The General theory : the monetary economics of underemployment equilibrium -- Interpretations of Keynes and the development of postwar macroeconomics.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"The principal objective of this book is to elucidate Keynes's development as an economic theoretician through examining his books, his articles, various manuscripts, lecture notes (very often taken by his students) and controversial correspondence. Hirai is not so much interested in relating a narrative, but instead in analysing the processes of theory-building and re-building which constitute Keynes's intellectual journey from the Tract to the General Theory. In short, the book aims to put forward Keynes's theoretical development as a theoretical hypothesis (and, collaterally, to show how this study differs from other studies). This book will be of great interest to students and researchers interested in Keynes and more widely the history of economic thought and macroeconomics."--BOOK JACKET.