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  https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Keynes%27s+Theoretical+Development%E2%80%94From+the+Tract+to+the+General+Theory&author=Hirai+T&publication+year=2008 [BOOK]   Keynes's theoretical development: From the tract to the general theory T Hirai - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com Keynes was probably the most important and without doubt the most influential economic thinker to emerge in the era spanning the decline and disintegration of the Pax Britannica and ending with the Second World War. After his death, his influence in the spheres of macroeconomics and economic policy-making became, over the course of the third quarter of the twentieth century, so overwhelmingly dominant that the period from the 1950s to the 1970s may with some justification be designated the 'Age of Keynes'. The principal objective of this book is to elucidate …     Cited by 48   Related articles   All 7 versions  

The History of Economic Thought  Vol.50 No.2 Feb. 2009  pp. 89-91   Keynes and his Battles. By Gilles Dostaler. Cheltenham ( UK ) and Northampton ( USA ): Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2007. vi; 374 pp.                                                                                             Toshiaki Hirai     So far no economist has emerged to surpass Keynes in the impact he has had not only in economics but in other fields as well. That phenomenon of powerful economic theory and social philosophy that came to be called the “Keynesian Revolution” is the most widely-recognized aspect of his extraordinary reach, but it does not stand alone as his only major achievement.   As a young economist Keynes contributed to ...

  The History of Economic Thought , 62-2 (January 2021) pp. 88-89 【 Book   Review 】 Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Essays in Keynesian Persuasion Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, xiv+362pp.   The book reviewed here consists of 15 papers   (written between 2002–2018 by a prominent historian of economic thought) divided between “Part I Re-appraising the General Theory ,” “II Cambridge Archives,” “III The Return of Keynes,” and “IV Keynes as Speculator, Investor and Reformer.”   A striking feature throughout is the reconstruction through unpublished letters and material of a theoretical and human struggle centered around Keynes. I have selected four topics that I found particularly stimulating for closer consideration.   The first topic is related to the Transition from A Treatise on Money ( The Treatise , 1930)   to The General Theory (1936). This topic is discussed in Chapters 2, 3, 6, and 7. Chapter 3 discusses it...

     The Review of Keynesian Studies,  Vol.3 pp. 157-206 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iMnNF5W-enSwh9RHyhrOFUrh83SmRXlA/view?usp=sharing     Keynes’s “New Liberalism” Re-examined: 　　　    From Versailles towards The General Theory     Toshiaki Hirai     1. Introduction   2. Keynes at the Paris Peace Conference   3. The Economic Consequences of the Peace   4. New Liberalism   5. Positioning the “New Liberalism” 　   6. Conclusion                Abstract   Keynes advocates his own social philosophy, “New Liberalism”, which is based on “social justice”, “economic efficiency”, and “individual liberty”. From the early 1920s to the mid-30s, he persisted in his critical stance on the “Versailles System”, which had plunged Europe into a devastating situation, first putting forward his reconstruction plan for ...