Keynes's General Theory After Seventy Years‪.‬

Keynes's General Theory after Seventy Years, edited by Robert W. Dimand, Robert A. Mundell and Alessandro Vercelli. Basingstoke, UK and New York, US: International Economic Association (Conference Volume No. 147) for Palgrave Macmillan. 2010. Pp. xii + 316. ISBN 978-0-230-23599-1. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. As the first part of the first sentence of this thorough and wide-ranging book correctly states, 'John Maynard Keynes never ceases to fascinate macroeconomists'. Although it is now seventy-five years since the publication of one of the most important books in economics and arguably one of the most important in all the social sciences, the General Theory continues to be a source of discussion, debate and controversy. As a great controversialist himself, Keynes would at least have been happy with this part of his substantial legacy. His rehabilitation as part of the response to the global economic and financial crisis is further testament to the ongoing vitality of his ideas.