The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by KEYNES, John Maynard (1883-1946)

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1936. [Economics]. FIRST EDITION. Demy octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 403; [1], blank. Publisher's blue-green cloth ruled in gilt and blind, gilt titles to backstrip. No jacket. Mild spotting to edges and extremities, two neat owner signatures to flyleaf (1936 and 1957); cloth a little rubbed and bumped, some minor marks. A very good copy of this landmark work. John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB (1883-1946); British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. Economists consider him one of the main founders of modern theoretical macroeconomics, and his popular expression "In the very long run, we are all dead" is still quoted. Keynes dominated the Bretton Woods conference out of which came the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. A highly placed American official recently remarked "We are all Keynsians today". Included within "Printing and the Mind of Man.