The book develops a sympathetic Marxist critique of Keynes. Keynes's insights, particularly into unemployment, money and finance and the importance of state intervention gain greater critical purchase when re-worked on Marxist foundations and doing so also enriches Marxism.

• Front matter
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: towards a critical but constructive appraisal of Keynes’s thought
• 1 Keynes’s life and times
• 2 Keynes’s philosophy
• 3 Keynes’s politics
• 4 Economics before the General Theory
• 5 Keynes’s General Theory
• 6 Unemployment: making Marxist use of Keynes
• 7 Money
• 8 Profit and interest
• 9 Money and states in capitalism’s uneven development
• 10 Keynesianism in practice?
• 11 Keynesian theory after Keynes
• 12 The decline of Keynesianism and the prospects for return
• References
• Index