1 Precursors of Keynes : Marx , Veblen , and Sismondi
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Too often, the examination of the work of a major intellectual figure occurs in an historical vacuum. History has two meanings. One sense is obviously that of the social, political, and economic context within which a specific theoretical development takes place. Would Keynes have written The General Theory had England not suffered economic difficulties following World War I and had the capitalist world not all but collapsed in the 1930’s? Clearly, his great book was directed toward the Great Depression, and his non-conventional approach to economic theory began certainly by at least 1926 with his essay “The End of Laissez Faire.”
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