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The General Theory: Consumption, Investment, and Effective Demand

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Leaping forward from the schema traced in the chapter on the parameters of a monetary economy, Keynes made the traditional theory of full employment his target; this is confirmed by the various drafts of the index for the new book, which he now referred to as The General Theory of Employment.

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Vicarelli, F. (1984). The General Theory: Consumption, Investment, and Effective Demand. In: Keynes: The Instability of Capitalism. Keynesian studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07639-0_8

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