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Introduction: Why Keynes Matters -- Keynes's Legacy, 70 Years Later -- The Three Pillars Of Keynes's Doctrines -- Keynes Under Attack -- An Education In Economics -- Three Signposts -- Fault Lines In The American Economy -- A Half-century Of Aggregate Demand And Output -- The Third Signpost: Employment And Unemployment -- Types Of Unemployment -- Consumer Demand And Where It Leads -- Connections -- The Propensity To Consume -- Money And Liquidity-preference -- A Web Of Relationships -- Trends -- Footnote On The Spectrum Of Interest Rates -- Investment Demand And Where It Leads -- Investment Supply: Where The Money Comes From -- Investment Demand: Putting The Money To Work -- Expectations -- The Rate Of Interest -- A Digression On Three Types Of Price -- Four Periods Of Economic Activity -- What Should The Government Be Doing? -- American Economic Policy During The 1930s -- The Travails Of Understanding Government Statistics -- External Trade And Its Complications -- Did The Deficits Have Any Effect? -- Did Keynes Get It Right? -- Floating On An Ocean Of Expectations -- The Psychology Of Recession -- How Do Businesses Grow? -- The Psychology Of Recovery -- The Prosperous Years Since 1945 -- Keynes The Man -- Social Class And The British: A Digression -- The Leap Into The Top 5 Percent -- Act I: Early Promise, Early Fulfillment -- Act Ii: A Continuous Process Of Intellectual Development -- Versailles And After -- Twenty Years Of Guerilla Infighting -- The Troubles Of The 1920s -- The Gold Standard And The Forces Of Financial Conservatism -- The Great Depression -- Keynes, England And The World -- An Intimation Of Mortality -- The Approach Of World War Two -- Guru Becomes Man Of Action -- Keynes As Treasury Ambassador -- Bringing An End To Economic Warfare -- The Employment Policy White Paper -- Keynes's Last Contribution -- Keynes The Prophet. John Philip Jones. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.