Prof DeLong offers suggested reading from Maynard Keynes:
Things to Read by KeynesTyler Cowen writes:
Marginal Revolution: New MR book club – Keynes’s General Theory: I will go through the book [Keynes’s General Theory], chapter by chapter, with an eye toward a deeper understanding of what Keynes wrote and why it is, as Greg says, so important. I’m not yet sure what kind of pace I can maintain but order your copy here, now. The Kindle version is only $3.96. We’ll do chapters 1 and 2 by next Monday, eight days from now.The Marxists.org version of the General Theory is free
I am of a different view than Tyler. I think that the most important things by Keynes to read do not include the General Theory. My list of General Theory-length reading from Keynes is this:
- Keynes (1919), The Economic Consequences of the Peace
- Keynes (1924), A Tract on Monetary Reform No etext
- Keynes (1932), Essays in Persuasion No etext
- Keynes (1919), “Inflation”
- Keynes (1923), “Social Consequences of Changes in the Value of Money”
- Keynes (1925), “The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill”
- Keynes (1926), “The End of Laissez-Faire”
- Keynes (1930), “The Great Slump of 1930”
- Keynes (1931), “The Consequences to the Banks of the Collapse in Money Values”
- Keynes (1932), “The World Economic Outlook” http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/budget/keynesf.htm
- Keynes (1933), “An Open Letter to President Roosevelt”
- Keynes (1938), “A Private Letter to President Roosevelt”
and I am tremendously annoyed at the absence of etext versions of the Tract on Monetary Reform and Essays in Persuasion.
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