[Economics] Keynes, J.M. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

London, Macmillan and Co., 1936. XII,403 p., orig. gilt-lettered cl. - Owner's entry on first free endpaper. Fine copy. Second impression of the first edition of the most influential economic work of the 20th-century.

*Carter, 1967. PMM 423: "[The present work] threw the economists of the world into two violently opposed camps. Yet eight years later Keynes was to dominate the international conference at Bretton Woods, out of which came the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; and his influence during the ensuing decades, even on his theoretical opponents, has been such that a highly placed American official recently remarked that 'we are all Keynesians today'"