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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Categories: Money & Finance, Economics
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Summary
Keynes’ The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money remains, approaching a century after it first appeared, one of the most important documents on economics, along with Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx’s Capital.
Hugely important for much of the 20th century, the General Theory was seemingly overtaken by monetarists but won a new, enduring respect among a new generation of economists and politicians following the financial difficulties which began in 2007-8.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) promoted a middle way between the Marxist approach of total governmental control and those committed to, essentially, allowing markets to operate largely free of restraints. He saw the need for central intervention, especially at times of crisis, but always acknowledged the importance and the contribution of individual enterprise within a free market system.
First published in 1936, Keynes’ ideas had evolved during the difficulties following World War I in Europe, and the US crash and the Depression of the 1920s-'30s and the misery of mass unemployment. He deplored the situation where a few individuals or companies stored massive wealth while vast numbers experienced poverty and insecurity (his alarm bells ring today!) and sought to promote initiatives where governments could intervene with social projects to keep money fluctuating.
The General Theory is a stimulating and challenging work. Keynes presents his case with minimum jargon and admirable clarity. He does use formulae to support and clarify his case, and in some cases these have been included in the narrative in a manner which can be absorbed. In the few more complicated cases, the formulae are available on pdfs which can be downloaded with this recording.
Introduction by Mark G Spencer.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-02-19
Jargon and Vision
Brilliant yet obscure; competent yet dilettantesque; visionary yet misguided... There is a lot to unpack in The General Theory.
The book is written with a heavy-handed jargon that freely mixes established economic terminology with Keynes's own innovations. I am firmly of the opinion that technical jargon and mathematical expression are important servants of economic analysis that should never be allowed to become masters. In Keynes's case, the consequence of the style is not clarity, but a needlessly frustrating reading experience.
Nonethless, the book also contains lucid sections and even a few inspiring and rhetorically powerful sections. This book is a real treasure trove of powerful quotations that distil important but counterintuitive ideas.
And speaking of counterintuitive, let me briefly talk about the contents (without any attempt to summarize the main arguments or to do justice to the pros and cons).
Aside from the obvious impact on trade cycle theory and depression management, the real strength of the book, in my opinion, is that it dares to go against the flow, to swim against the current, in so many crucial respects: 1) By positing a difference between the micro and the macro, and showing how the laws of the first need not operate on the second (and vice versa); 2) By denying the folk wisdom of "a penny saved is a penny earned" and the classical economic wisdom of household frugality (austerity) as a guide to sound fiscal policy under certain macro conditions. 3) By resuscitating numerous occasionally valuable heterodox theories, such as the theory of underconsumption (under the guise of aggregate demand management) and the Sentimentalist-Scottish-Mandevillean emphasis on the dark psychology of capitalism (under the guise of propensity to consume, animal spirits, etc). 4) And by mixing some fresh insights of psychology, probability theory, and complexity theory, with the classical insights of economics (although in a rudimentary way).
That said, there are severe problems with Keynes's theory - both in the pure formulation and in the impure application. The central notions of aggregate demand, the marginal efficiency of capital, the propensity to consume, full employment, the Kahn multiplier, etc., all seem to break down under careful scrutiny. The whole distinction between micro and macro might have been a big mistake. At the very least, the applicability of Keynesian concepts is much more tenuous and limited than might be supposed by the lofty title of a "General Theory."
But whatever the failings of the Keynesian enterprise (there goes one star!) and whatever the failings of the obscure prose (and there goes another!), the book is a rare achievement in two respects: in innovation and inspiration. It is impossible not to be delighted and impressed by the amount of valuable insights and out-of-the-box thinking contained herein.
The cute party trick of being a perennial contrarian seems less impressive when it leads to intellectual error and bad policy (both of which have been the occasional consequence of the General Theory). And the muddied terminology of Keynesian macroeconomics is a needless swamp. But the diversification and improvement of science - and social progress itself - is built upon the work of people who dare to be wrong in an enlightening way.
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- Brendan Clune
- 27-02-19
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The introduction on Keynes life was good, but there is too much math to be communicated in an audio book. If you want this one get it in print.
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- Mira Krishnan
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Keynes in the car...
I think it would be beneath Keynes for me to really critique him. He is worth listening to on both sides - much like Hayek and Smith, in modern discourse I find him significantly misunderstood and caricaturized all too frequently both to advance and to reject policies for which he, himself, appeared to have, respectively, little favor for or little criticism for. The narration is good, but it could use more post-processing so that the volume level were more even and it were more easily listened to in cars, trains, or other noisier environments, since a major benefit of the audiobook is being able to listen to use this kind of time for learning and reflection.
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- James Lawless
- 15-05-20
From the source
Stop listening to the TV talking heads that tell you what Keynes said. listen to his own words and form your own opinion.
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- Thulani
- 18-12-19
Great book
Great book. Really enjoyed it. Well narrated by Jonathan Keeble. I highly recommend it to people interested in Keynes.
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- Luis
- 11-10-18
Informative and easy to understand
Written very well and speaker was easy on the ears. this book is a good look into economics.
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- Jason
- 23-05-19
Very dry reading
very dry reading. Use of charts and equations does not work well for this audio book. I have read several books on economics and have to say this one is difficult to understand because the author is trying to invent a different school of economics and he is hypothesizing his theory. I understand that the theory laid out here is very popular with those who run our economy and I am not quite sure if that is good or bad. I can't help feel the theory he lays out here is manipulative and wrong, yet it does seem to work as implemented... until of course it doesn't.
Would take reading several times to fully understand, but probably not worth the effort unless you are an economist.
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- Will Szal
- 14-04-19
Slow Going
Generally, it seems that Keynes is a left-leaning economist—contrasted with Hayek. But in reading this book, Keynes doesn't make any appeal to ethics. This book is an investigation into the relationship between savings, investment, and capital. Although you could say that, if you follow through with some of Keynes' suggestions, you get pro-social outcomes, this doesn't make him pro-social. Apparently he was actually a very active investor, and quite a wealthy man.
Keynes was a proponent of increasing consumption—a prescription that no longer makes sense in our peak-everything world. This also applies to the wealthy, as, if wealthy people don't spend their money, wealth inequality just gets worse and worse.
This book is slow going. In the introduction, he states that his primary audience is economists, so maybe this was to be expected.
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- Alexey
- 31-01-21
Disaster
The book is full of formulas and notations and absolutely not feasible for audio. Waste of time and money
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-08-20
Masterpiece
Pros: Excellent narrator. Very informative, especially regarding human behavior in investing. In that sense it’s just as useful today, human behavior remains the same.
Cons: The material is a bit too dense and technical for audiobook format
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- Amer
- 12-08-20
A classic, but an easy to listen
I have to admit I struggled to finish it. If it were not a classic I would stop after one hour max.