John Maynard Keynes Books

The most provocative book written by any economist of Keynes's generation, propounding a fundamentally new approach that revolutionised economics.

Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’ celebrates the significant and exciting Aboriginal involvement in Australian racing history. A remarkable history considering that Australian Aboriginal people’s first contact with the European animals caused them bewilderment and terror because violent massacres and unprovoked vicious attacks were conducted from horseback. However, within a short period they adapted and shed their fears. Over time they caught horses and taught themselves to ride, using sheets of bark as makeshift saddles. Settler accounts record Aboriginal people’s uncanny affinity with horses; their excellence in caring for them and in riding. So, moving from the skilled workers who were the backbone of the Australian pastoral industries to racing horses was an obvious step. Amongst the many Aboriginal jockeys highlighted in the book are Merv Maynard, Norm Rose, Frank Reys, Richard Lawrence 'Darby' McCarthy and Leigh-Anne Goodwin, Australia's first female Aboriginal jockey to ride a winner at a metropolitan track.

Exploring the intricate relationship between probability and knowledge, this comprehensive work delves into various methods of measuring probabilities and the principles underlying them. It covers topics such as the frequency theory, logical inference, and the axioms of probability, while also addressing historical perspectives and significant theorems by renowned mathematicians. The book further examines the practical applications of probability in everyday conduct and statistical inference, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the foundations and implications of probabilistic reasoning.

Keynes' classic work explores the intricate relationship between unemployment, money, and prices, originally published in 1930 as two volumes. This reprint combines both volumes into a single edition, preserving the original's format. A key concept discussed is the impact of high interest rates on savings and investments, leading to increased unemployment. Keynes argues that when savings outpace investments, it hampers spending, ultimately affecting employers' profitability. This foundational text remains significant in economic theory.

Examining the interplay between unemployment, money, and prices, this work presents Keynes' foundational theories on economic behavior. Originally published in two volumes, it is now available in a single volume format, retaining the original text. A key concept discussed is the imbalance between savings and investments, particularly when high interest rates discourage spending, leading to increased unemployment. This reprint offers a comprehensive view of Keynes' insights into monetary theory and its practical implications for the economy.

The essays in this volume show Keynes's attempts to influence the course of events by public persuasion over the period of 1919-40. In the light of subsequent history, Essays in Persuasion is a remarkably prophetic volume covering a wide range of issues in political economy. In articles on the Versailles Treaty. John Maynard Keynes foresaw all too clearly that excessive Allied demands for reparations and indemnities would lead to the economic collapse of Germany. In Keynes's essays on inflation and deflation, the reader can find ideas that were to become the foundations of his most renowned treatise, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). With startling accuracy Keynes forecast the economic fluctuations that were to beset the economies of Europe and the United States and even proposed measures which, if heeded at the time, might have warded off an era of world-wide depression. His views on Soviet Russia, on the decline of laissez-faire, and the possibilities of economic growth are as relevant today as when Keynes originally set them forth.

Focusing on the necessity of stable currency, the book explores its critical role in fostering a healthy global economy. It examines the detrimental effects of currency instability on various stakeholders, including investors and wage earners. Keynes advocates for policies prioritizing the stability of the dollar's commodity value over its gold value. His insightful analysis of early 20th-century monetary issues, along with practical suggestions and clear explanations of economic principles, serves as an essential guide for understanding economics and its sociopolitical ramifications.

Edited with an introduction by ROBERT SKIDELSKY'Many of the greatest economic evils of our time are the fruits of risk, uncertainty, and ignorance'John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist, and one of the most influential thinkers, of the twentieth century. He overturned the orthodoxy that markets were optimally self-regulating, and instead argued for state intervention to ensure full employment and economic stability. This new selection is the first comprehensive single-volume edition of Keynes's writings on economics, philosophy, social theory and policy, including several pieces never before published. Full of irony and wit, they offer a dazzling introduction to a figure whose ideas still have urgent relevance today.John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is widely considered to have been the most influential economist of the 20th century. His key books include The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919); A Treatise on Probability (1921); A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923); A Treatise on Money (1930); and his magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936).Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick. His three-volume biography of Keynes received numerous awards, including the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize.

"John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was one of the most influential economists of the first half of the twentieth century. In The End of Laissez-Faire (1926), Keynes presents a brief historical review of laissez-faire economic policy."--Jacket

Distinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that drastically altered the ways in which economists view the world. In his most important work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), Keynes critiqued the laissez-faire policies of his day, particularly the proposition that a normally functioning market economy would bring full employment. Keynes's forward-looking work transformed economics from merely a descriptive and analytic discipline into one that is policy oriented. For Keynes, enlightened government intervention in a nation's economic life was essential to curbing what he saw as the inherent inequalities and instabilities of unregulated capitalism.