His most important work, the general theory of employment, interest and money, advocated a remedy for recession based on a governmentsponsored policy of full employment. This book shows keynes at his best in the economic analysis and interpretation of detail as well as main trends, and reveals the validity of much of his earlier criticism of the peacemakers at versailles. Excerpted from the commanding heights by daniel yergin and joseph stanislaw, 1998 ed. He was born into the british empire at its height, at a time when britain was the most economically and militarily powerful state in the world.
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