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The General Theory Of Employment, Interest, And Money.

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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Background information about the Author
John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, England in 1883 (Bateman, Toshiaki, Maria, 2010). He was the first born in a family of three children. He spent most of his toddler years in Cambridge where he attended kindergarten. In 1889, he attended his first kindergarten lessons at Perse School for Girls where he was supposed to attend lessons for five days a week. At the initial stage of education, he showed great interest in Arithmetic, laying a firm foundation for his future career as an economist (Bateman, et al. 2010) As his health was not good at this time, he had to take his lessons from home lessons since he could not attend classes on a …show more content…

Here the author looks at all that constitutes classical economics and how one can go about it. Chapter 3 looks at the principle of effective demand and how the various aspects of demand and supply relate with each other and how they affect the economies of a given country. The factors of production are looked at in great detail here. An interesting quote says that ‘wage is equal to the marginal product of labor (Chapter 2 book I page 13). The reason is that it tells people that if one wants to earn more, then his input should be more in any given occupation.

Book II
Chapter 4 looks at the choice of units and the difficulties that one is likely to have as he goes about choosing the most appropriate unit for him to concentrate on. It also looks at the perplexities that are covered in each choice of unit and how one can go about them. Chapter 5 looks at what will motivate the employees to put all their efforts in a given work. The chapter says that the expectations of employees will form a significant basis in determining the extent to which the employees will be dedicated in their workplace. The chapter classifies the expectations as either being short term expectations or long term expectations. The short term expectations will include the price that an entrepreneur is willing to pay for a given commodity, which may translate into salaries for employees. The long term expectations will include

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