ABSTRACT
John Kenneth Galbraith has held up the ‘almost unique unreadability’ and ‘fascinating obscurity’ of much of John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money as a major reason for its success. It created a need for translators and proselytizers to explain its deep meaning to government officials, students and the public at large; and ‘as with the Bible and Marx, obscurity stimulated abstract debate’ (Galbraith, 1971:44).
