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In recent years the sales of The General Theory in the USA have fallen to a low level. Amanda Hamilton, the economics editor of Palgrave Macmillan, had the brilliant idea of reissuing in the USA a paperback edition based on the RES Collected Writings (CW) edition, in which is included the general introduction to the CWs, the editors’ introduction to The General Theory itself, all the prefaces John Maynard Keynes wrote for the foreign translations – French, German and Japanese – as well as for the original volume, three appendixes including Keynes’s reply to Dunlop and Tarshis in the Economic Journal in 1939 and now a new introduction by Paul Krugman.
Originally published in History of Economics Review, No. 47, Winter 2008, pp. 125–31.
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Harcourt, G.C. (2012). On Paul Krugman on Maynard Keynes’s General Theory (2008). In: The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230348653_11
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