The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money : with The Economic Consequences of the Peace
基本信息
By (author) John Maynard Keynes , Series edited by Tom Griffith , Introduction and notes by Dr Mark G Spencer
Series:Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
Format:Paperback / softback 576 pages
Publisher:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Imprint:Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN:9781840227475
Published: 5 Mar 2017
Classifications:United Kingdom, Great Britain, 20th century, Economic theory & philosophy, Economic history
Readership:General (US: Trade)
Weight:364g
Dimensions:129 x 197 x 31 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom
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书籍简介
约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯(1883-1946)也许是二十世纪重要的经济思想家。在经济理论方面，他与亚当?斯密(Adam Smith)和卡尔?马克思(Karl Marx)齐名;从大萧条到20世纪70年代，他对经济学实践的影响是无与伦比的。《就业、利息和货币通论》于1936年首次出版。
在剑桥读书的时候，凯恩斯曾写信给一位朋友，表达他对“自由贸易和自由思想”的热爱。在凯恩斯明晰的风格、简洁的散文和生动的描述帮助下，他的宏观经济观点给人一种新奇和清晰感，有时甚至是模棱两可。
他担心的是高失业率和巨大的贫富差距。他认为，只有将这两者都加以抑制，个人主义——“改善未来的最有力工具”——才能得到保障。二十一世纪也许会证明他是对的。在《和平的经济后果》(1919年)一书中，凯恩斯优雅而尖锐地揭露了对一个战败、苦苦挣扎的国家实施紧缩政策的愚蠢。
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was first published in 1936.
But its ideas had been forming for decades as a student at Cambridge, Keynes had written to a friend of his love for 'Free Trade and free thought'. Keynes's limpid style, concise prose, and vivid de*ions have helped to keep his ideas alive - as have the novelty and clarity, at times even the ambiguity, of his macroeconomic vision. He was troubled, above all, by high unemployment rates and large disparities in wealth and income.
Only by curbing both, he thought, could individualism, 'the most powerful instrument to better the future', be safeguarded. The twenty-first century may yet prove him right. In The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Keynes elegantly and acutely exposes the folly of imposing austerity on a defeated and struggling nation.
作者简介
约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯于1883年7月5日出生在英国剑桥。他的父亲约翰?内维尔?凯恩斯(John Neville Keynes)是剑桥大学(Cambridge University)的教授和行政人员，他本人也是《政治经济学的范围和方法》(the Scope and Methods of Political economics)一书的作者。从伊顿公学(1897-1902)毕业后，凯恩斯进入国王学院学习经济学。毕业后，他在印度办事处工作(1906-1908);在剑桥大学讲授经济学(1908年);1909年成为国王学院院士、《经济杂志》编辑、皇家经济学会秘书(1911年);并接受了英国财政部的职位。
1919年，凯恩斯在巴黎和平会议上担任财政部首席代表。然而，由于对会议上的事态发展感到不安，他很快就辞职了。他的《和平的经济后果》(1919年)表达了他对针对德国的惩罚性措施的强烈反对。在这本雄辩而又极富先见性的著作中，凯恩斯详细阐述了被征服的德国无力支付战争赔款所带来的问题，以及持续的欧洲*民族主义所带来的毁灭性的经济、社会和政治后果。
凯恩斯回到英国，继续在剑桥大学教书(1920-37)。在此期间，他做了西德尼·鲍尔的演讲，并作为小册子《自由放任主义的终结》(1926)出版，并撰写了他的主要著作《就业、利息和货币通论》(1935-36)。批判阿尔弗雷德·马歇尔的新古典主义理论，即一个正常运作的市场。
凯恩斯指出，市场经济可以在低于充分就业的情况下运行，甚至可能不利于降低失业率。凯恩斯主张开明的政府干预，而不是无管制的放任政策。对货币和金融安排如何影响经济的凯恩斯主义分析，形成了随后积极的政府财政和货币政策的基础。
1937年，心脏病结束了凯恩斯的学术生涯。然而，他仍然积极担任财政大臣的顾问(1940年)、布雷顿森林会议(1944年)、Lend Lease的第二阶段(1944年)、美国贷款给英国的安排(1945年)以及国际货币基金组织和国际银行的成立(1946年)的首席英国代表和谈判代表。1942年，他被封为贵族，被任命为首任蒂尔顿凯恩斯男爵。1946年4月21日，约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯在苏塞克斯郡的费尔去世。
凯恩斯的其他著作包括《条约修订》(1922年)、《货币改革概论》(1923年)、《货币论》(1930年)和《如何为战争买单》(1940年)。
John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, England, on July 5, 1883. His father, John Neville Keynes, was a professor and administrator at Cambridge University and himself the author of The Scope and Methods of Political Economy. After attending Eton (1897–1902), Keynes entered King’s College, where he studied economics. Following graduation, he worked in the India Office (1906–1908); lectured on economics at Cambridge (1908); was made a fellow of King’s College (1909), editor of the Economic Journal, and secretary of the Royal Economic Society (1911); and accepted a position in the British treasury.
In 1919 Keynes was principal representative of the treasury at the Paris Peace Conference. Disturbed by developments at the conference, however, he soon resigned. His Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) gave voice to his strong objection to the punitive measures being enacted against Germany. In this eloquently argued and strangely prescient work, Keynes detailed the problems that would result from the war reparations to be made by conquered Germany beyond her ability to pay, as well as the devastating economic, social, and political consequences of continuing European ultranationalism.
Keynes returned to England to resume teaching at Cambridge (1920–37), during which time he gave the Sidney Ball Lecture that was published as the pamphlet The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) and wrote his main work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1935–36). Critiquing the neoclassical theory of Alfred Marshall, namely, that a normally functioning market
economy leads to full employment, Keynes showed that a market economy can operate at less than full employment and that it may even work against reducing unemployment. Keynes advocated enlightened governmental intervention over unregulated laissez-faire policies. The Keynesian analysis of how monetary and financial arrangements affect the economy has formed the basis of subsequent activist governmental fiscal and monetary policy.
Heart trouble ended Keynes’s academic career in 1937. However, he remained active as an adviser to the chancellor of the exchequer (1940) and as principal British delegate and negotiator at the Bretton Woods Conference (1944), Stage II of Lend Lease (1944), arrangements for a United States loan to Britain (1945), and the inauguration of the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank (1946). In 1942, he was raised to the peerage, being named 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton. John Maynard Keynes died in Firle, Sussex, on April 21, 1946.
Keynes’s other published works include A Revision of the Treaty (1922), A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), A Treatise on Money (1930), and How to Pay for the War (1940).
