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The Evolution of the “Investment System”: Keynes' Theory of Employment and Money Revisited

Karl A. McDermott

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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes. The bearing of the foregoing theory on the first of these is obvious (Keynes, 1936, p. 372).

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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes. The bearing of the foregoing theory on the first of these is obvious (Keynes, 1936, p. 372).

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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes. The bearing of the foregoing theory on the first of these is obvious (Keynes, 1936, p. 372).

Key concepts: Economics, Full employment, Keynesian economics, Investment (military), Quantity theory of money, Distribution (mathematics), Neoclassical economics, Labour economics

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