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Title: The General Theory in Keynes’s biographies
Author: MARCUZZO Maria Cristina
It is perhaps fitting to mark the 70th anniversary of the General Theory with an assessment of what we have learned about this work from the vast research undertaken by three biographers of Keynes whose researches on his papers and correspondence mark them out among scholars for their extraordinary scope and thoroughness. I will compare the analysis of the GT in Keynes’s three major biographies (Harrod 1951, Moggridge 1992, Skidelsky 1992) in order to assess the views presented there on the genesis of the book, the development of its main ideas and the various “versions” which have been produced ever since. My conclusion is that the accounts of the GT in these three biographies differ in two important aspects resulting from the biographical style and the comparative advantage in approaching the subject by these three authors.
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