# The Essential Keynes

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- Authors: [John Maynard Keynes](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-maynard-keynes)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4139-736-8
- Published: 2015-04-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist, and one of the most influential thinkers, of the twentieth century. He overturned the orthodoxy that markets were optimally self-regulating, and instead argued for state intervention to ensure full employment and economic stability. This new selection is the first comprehensive single-volume edition of Keynes's writings on economics, philosophy, social theory and policy, including several pieces never before published. Full of irony and wit, they offer a dazzling introduction to a figure whose ideas still have urgent relevance today.