Keynes Remains an Odd Guide to the Crisis

The name of John Maynard Keynes has been all about since the economic crisis hit in 2008. “The Return of the Master,” as one bestselling book of 2009 put it. Yet it remains an unsatisfying experience to consult Keynes’s central work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), if you’re trying to get a bead on our current problems.