A brief survey of post Keynesian developments [1963]

Abstract

Much has happened in the quarter century since Keynes published his General Theory. What are some of the changes that a second edition might call for? Had he lived Keynes would be eighty today, hard as that is to imagine. And having worked all his life (overworked, according to his friend Bertrand Russell), Keynes might be excused from the chore of preparing a revision-particularly since, for better or worse, the General Theory is a classic and even its creator must not tamper with a classic. The pyramids may not be perfect, but they are the most perfect pyramids we shall ever know.