On Analyzing Keynes

A book by Keynes, a brilliant economic poet, swept the Western world despite misstatements, falsifications and errors. How come?

when John Maynard Keynes’ book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, appeared in 1936, I began to read it with the idea of reviewing it or discussing it in editorials. But I soon lost heart at the prospect of being able to summarize it or criticize it in any brief form. Nearly every other sentence seemed at a first reading to be either obscure or frivolous, either clearly fallacious or downright unintelligible. So I hurried through the rest of the volume and then laid it aside.

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A book by Keynes, a brilliant economic poet, swept the Western world despite misstatements, falsifications and errors. How come?

when John Maynard Keynes’ book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, appeared in 1936, I began to read it with the idea of reviewing it or discussing it in editorials. But I soon lost heart at the prospect of being able to summarize it or criticize it in any brief form. Nearly every other sentence seemed at a first reading to be either obscure or frivolous, either clearly fallacious or downright unintelligible. So I hurried through the rest of the volume and then laid it aside.