ABSTRACT
This chapter compares two key texts by Beveridge and Keynes. The analysis of the social in Social Insurance and the Allied Services and the theory of the economy in the General Theory are, of course, different in many respects. Our thesis is that, despite these differences, the key texts are similar in that they share a common political a priori. Before we establish and develop this thesis, it is useful to begin by outlining the very different character of the two texts.
