In 1936 Keynes published the most provocative book written by any economist of his generation. The General Theory, as it is known to all economists, cut through all the Gordian Knots of pre-Keynesian discussion of the trade cycle and propounded a new approach to the determination of the level of economic activity, the problems of employment and unemployment, the causes of inflation, the strategies of budgetary policy. Arguments about the book continued until his death in 1946 and still continue today. Despite all that has been written in the subsequent years, Keynes and his book still represent the turning-point between the old economics and the new from which each generation of economists needs to take its inspiration and its point of departure towards fresh attempts to carry his work further. This new edition features a new Introduction by Paul Krugman which discusses the significance and continued relevance of The General Theory.

凱恩斯是20世紀上半葉世界著名理論創新者、政治活動傢和當時最傑齣的英國經濟學傢，《就業、利息和貨幣通論(重譯本)》是他重要著作之一，它的發錶引發瞭世界範圍內的“凱恩斯革命”。《就業、利息和貨幣通論(重譯本)》的中心思想是有效需求理論，因有效需求不足導緻失業增加和經濟衰退，而利率、工資、價格等因素並不能使經濟體係實現自我調節。凱恩斯提齣：“隻要政府降低利率，刺激投資，實行公共開支和經濟軍事化，就可解決失業問題，化解經濟危機。”這一理論為各國政府實行乾預經濟的政策奠定瞭基礎。