ABSTRACT
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money's overt purpose had been to construct the model of Keynes's General Theory, his pure abstraction of the essential workings of the modern, free-enterprise economy. Just as Keynes was more than an economist, The General Theory is more than an economic model; and philosophy, politics and political science, and supportive obiter dicta from history enter vitally into the economics. To arrive at Keynes's idea one begins with the man. John Maynard Keynes was the son of John Neville Keynes, a Cambridge University economist and logician. Suggestions of the ultimate John Maynard appear very early, thus the child absorbing some sense of the matter at issue as his father and a fellow scholar discussed revisions in John Neville's classic treatise on logic. The General Theory was a theory excogitated for specific policy purposes, a political act genially integrated into the politics of its time.
