https://doi.org/10.4081/ilpolitico.2020.303
IL KEYNES DI GIORGIO LA MALFA: UNA NOTA
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The "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" is presented here through the translation by Giorgio La Malfa, with an introduction which highlights not only its historical and theoretical backgrounds, but also its links with the greatest thinkers of the time, from Freud, Wittgenstein and Einstein to Virginia Woolf, Thomas Eliot and the other members of the Bloomsbury circle. The volume also collects a group of writings published before and after the "General Theory", closely related to it, including the author's preface to the various foreign editions.Keynes was the thinker of an era of deep crisis. The Great War, the collapse of Wall Street in 1929, the Second World War dramatically marked its time, and the strength of his message not only consists in offering an explanation of the historical and political causes of that dramatic season, but also in assessing a new "vision" of the economy highly connected with history, politics and society. Giorgio La Malfa claims that today, above all in Italy and in Europe, it is necessary to recover the keynesian message and to adopt keynesian economic policies aimed at stimulating growth and employment.
