Chapter Six and its Appendix deal in some detail with the way Keynes is defining income, savings and investment in the General Theory while the appendix to Chapter 6 goes into detail on user cost. His concept of user cost at one point sparked a certain amount of controversy among Keynesians but...

Chapters 8, 9 and 10 set out Keynes' theory of consumer behavior. Chapter 8 is entitled The Propensity to Consume: I. The Objective Factors, Chapter 9 is The Propensity to Consume: II. The Subjective Factors, and Chapter 10 is The Marginal Propensity to Consume and the Multiplier. Contrary to...

In Chapter 3 of the General Theory, Keynes sketches out what he calls the essence of the General Theory of Employment. He introduces the Keynesian expenditure-based model, the aggregate demand curve and also his aggregate supply function, a concept which spawned much debate among Post-Keynesian...

In Chapter 4 of the General Theory, Keynes discusses the units of measurement he will be using in the remainder of the book, in particular his reason for measuring in nominal rather than real terms, objection to aggregate measures of real output and physical capital stock, and his concept of...

Chapter 2 is one of the most important chapters in the General Theory. Not only does it set out Keynes' disagreements with key elements of the classical model, it lays out his own model of the working of the labour market, which underlies the analysis in the remainder of the General Theory. The...

This paper puts John Maynard Keynes' "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" into its historical context, both in terms of economic history and in terms of the history of economics. It discusses the post-World War I period as background to the General Theory, looks at the...

Keynes spent a tremendous amount of time and energy attempting to tutor Harrod on the mechanics of his IS-LM model between July to September, 1935. Keynes's painstaking slow attempts finally led Keynes in desperation to write a three point postscript to his letter of August, 1935, that is...

Keynes provided two versions of his IS-LM(LP) model in the General Theory. The first version was the verbal, English, literary, prose version contained in chapter 18 of the General Theory. This version was targeted for economists, such as Joan Robinson and Dennis Robertson, who could not grasp a...

Keynes's original IS-LM (LP) model of 1933, although a major conceptual breakthrough, was technically and mathematically flawed because Keynes incorporated realized and expected variables in the same set of equations.Keynes had solved this problem by early 1936 by formulating a completely new...