The great slump of 1930 | The means to prosperity
EssaysBy John Maynard Keynes
Length1h 19m
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Keynes Confronts the Crisis: Two Pivotal Roads to Recovery
This collection brings together two of John Maynard Keynes's most urgent and persuasive interventions during the darkest years of the Great Depression. In "The Great Slump of 1930," Keynes acts as a master diagnostician, dissecting the origins of the global economic collapse with chilling clarity. He explains why the world had plunged into a "virtuous circle" in reverse, where fear and falling demand fed upon themselves, and warns against the fatalistic belief that we must simply wait for nature to take its course.
In the seminal follow-up, "The Means to Prosperity," Keynes shifts from diagnosis to prescription. Here, he lays out the practical blueprint for government-led recovery that would redefine economic policy. With compelling logic, he advocates for deliberate public spending and loan-financed investment as the essential engine to break the cycle of depression, create employment, and restore confidence—ideas that would become the foundation of his revolutionary general theory.
Together, these essays capture a brilliant mind at a critical historical turning point, arguing not with abstract models but with persuasive force for action, hope, and a rational path out of despair.
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GenreBusiness and Economics
Length1 hr 19 mins
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Table of contents
1By Keynes in Cactus Catalogue:
7THE RAISING OF PRICES
2THE GREAT SLUMP OF 1930 - I.
8A PROPOSAL FOR THE WORLD ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
3II.
9APPENDIX
4THE MEANS TO PROSPERITY
10THE INTERNATIONAL NOTE ISSUE AND THE GOLD STANDARD
5THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
11CONCLUSION
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6INTERNAL EXPANSION
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