John Maynard Keynes's research while affiliated with WWF United Kingdom and other places

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Book
This book was originally published by Macmillan in 1936. It was voted the top Academic Book that Shaped Modern Britain by Academic Book Week (UK) in 2017, and in 2011 was placed on Time Magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. Reissued with a fresh Introduction by the Nobel-prize winner Paul Krugman and a new Afterword by...

Citations

... However, the failure of classical theory to provide a solution to the great depression of the 1930s, particularly in addressing the skyrocketing unemployment among the Western countries led to the acceptance of the Keynesian proposal to revive the depressed Western economies. In specific terms, Keynes, in his book titled, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", emphasised the need for an increment in government expenditure in addressing the great depression (see Keynes, 1936;. Unemployment, in particular, needs to be addressed, by giving unemployed people money to do all sorts of work. ...