About the Book
This volume brings together 40 reviews published before the end of 1936, showing how a range of economists and political and literary figures responded to the book. As they are all early reviews, they pre-date the articles (notably by J.R. Hicks) that appeared early in 1937 and which provided the framework (the so-called IS-LM model) through which economists have come to interpret Keynes's ideas.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Newspapers: "Mr Keynes on interest rates - social control of investment essential" in Daily Herald, 4 February 1936, Francis Williams; "What does Mr Keynes want - poison gas? in Daily Worker, 8 April 1936, Henry Douglas; "Mr J.M. Keynes on cheap money" in Financial News, 4 February 1936, Henry Douglas; "Mr Keynes attacks the citadel" in Manchester Guardian Commercial, 14 February 1936, T.S. Ashton; "A Daniel come to judgment - Mr Keynes on currency? in Observer, 16 February 1936, F.A.L.; "An economic bombshell - Mr Keynes' cure for employment" in Star, 4 February 1936, F.A.L.; "The blunders of economists" in Sunday Times, 23 February 1936, Hartley Withers; "Employment and money - Mr Keynes's views" in The Times, 10 March 1936, Hartley Withers; "Mr J.M. Keynes joins the heretics" in Western Mail, 13 February 1936, H.A. Marquand. Part 2 General literary and professional journals: "Mr Keynes on money" in Banker, April 1935, Douglas Jay; "Mr Keynes on the causes of unemployment" in Cambridge Review, 21 February 1936, Austin Robinson; "Half Way House" in Canadian Forum (volume 16), May 1936, Virginius Coe; "Keynes comments on money in Christian Century (volume 53), 22 July 1936, Henry C. Simons; review of "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" in Criterion (volume 16), October 1936, Montgomery Butchard; "Mr Keynes on money" in Economist (volume 122), 29 February 1036, E.A.G. Robinson; "A challenge to orthodoxy" in Fortnightly Review (Volume 145) 1936, Arnol Plant; "The conversions of Keynes" in G.K.'s Weekly, 26 March 1936, Montague Fordham; "Professor Durbin quarrels with Professor Keynes" in Labour, April 1936, E.F.M. Durbin; "Mr Keynes as Copernicus" in London Mercury (volume 33), April 1936, R.C.K. Ensor; "The mainsprings of capitalism" in Nation (volume 142), 15 April 1936, Maxwell Stewart; "Mr Keynes's General Theory" in New Republic (volume 86), 29 April 1936, Horace Taylor; "Mr Keynes beats the band" in New Statesman and Nation (volume 11), 15 February 1936), G.D.H. Cole; "Mr Keynes and the Labour movement" in Nineteenth Century (volume 120), A.L. Rowse; "Keynes's economics" in Saturday Review of Literature (volume 13), 4 April 1936, Fabian Franklin; "Mr Keynes's attacks on economists" in Spectator (volume 156), 14 February 1936, Hubert D. Henderson; "Employment and money - dilemmas of saving and spending" in Times Literary Supplement (no. 1780), 14 March 1935. Part 3 Specialist academic journals: review of "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" in American Economic Review (volume 26, September 1936, Charles O. Hardy; from "M Keynes' Theory of Employment" in Economic Journal (volume 46), June 1936, John R. Hicks; from "Mr J.M. Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" in Economica (volume 3), May 1936, Arthur C. Pigou. (Part contents).
