| Description |
xii, 403 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
A Harbinger book
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| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
Book I. Introduction. The general theory ; The postulate of the classical economics ; The principle of effective demand -- Book II. Definitions and ideas. The choice of units ; Expectations as determining output and employment ; The definition of income, saving and investment ; Appendix on user cost ; The meaning of saving and investment, further considered -- Book III. The propensity to consume. The propensity to consume I. The objective factors ; The propensity to consume II. The subjective factors ; The marginal propensity to consume and the multiplier -- Book IV. The inducement to invest. The marginal efficiency of capital -- The state of long-term expectation -- The general theory of the rate of interest -- The classical theory of the rate of interest -- Appendix on the rate of interest in Marshall's Principles of economics, Ricardo's Principles of political economy and elsewhere -- The psychological and business incentives to liquidity -- Sunday observations on the nature of capital -- The essential properties of interest and money -- The general theory of employment re-stated -- Book V. Money-wages and prices. Changes in money-wages ; Appendix on Prof. Pigou's Theory of unemployment ; The employment function ; The theory of prices -- Book VI. Short notes suggested by the general theory. Notes on the trade cycle ; Notes on mercantilism, the usury laws, stamped money and theories of under-consumption ; Concluding notes on the social philosophy towards which the general theory might lead. |
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Economics.
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Money.
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Interest.
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