Rereading Keynes. And develop good corporate culture
Going back to some of the essays written by the great 20th-century economist is useful, to better understand what is happening today, too
Tackling the economy as a subjective expression of human activity aimed at improving people’s life conditions and prospects. Caring for one’s “home” with rational tools as well as a certain amount of subjectivity that derives precisely from human action, paying great attention to what the classic scholars teach as, over time, they have studied and interpreted this facet of human endeavour and finding, in them, tools that are still useful to understand what is happening nowadays.
This is why rereading, among many others, some of the essays on the economic crisis written by John Maynard Keynes and collected in Come uscire dalla crisi (How to overcome the crisis), curated by Pierluigi Sabbatini, can prove useful. It includes nine essays written just before he drafted his seminal work (the General Theory), during the Great Depression, in the 1930s. The essays, all written in a controversial and brilliant, yet easily accessible, style, tackle issues that were as important then as they are today – unemployment, lack of investments, international speculative trade – and that constitute as many elements of the economic crisis, which Keynes precisely describes before suggesting some economic policies to solve them.
This book includes writings on the level of wages, international issues and tensions, unemployment, public economic planning, the methods and paths to reach wealth, a state’s self-sufficiency, the presence of poverty even when prosperity prevails in an economic system. All topics that, needless to say, are examined not just through a refined analysis but also with astute and comprehensible language.
Reading Keynes is always a stimulating and informative experience – reading him in a deeply complex period and, in many ways, during a crisis, provides unusual interpretative tools that should certainly be employed and that remain irreplaceable.
Come uscire dalla crisi (How to overcome the crisis)
John Maynard Keynes
Pierluigi Sabbatini (curated by)
Laterza, 2004
Going back to some of the essays written by the great 20th-century economist is useful, to better understand what is happening today, too
Tackling the economy as a subjective expression of human activity aimed at improving people’s life conditions and prospects. Caring for one’s “home” with rational tools as well as a certain amount of subjectivity that derives precisely from human action, paying great attention to what the classic scholars teach as, over time, they have studied and interpreted this facet of human endeavour and finding, in them, tools that are still useful to understand what is happening nowadays.
This is why rereading, among many others, some of the essays on the economic crisis written by John Maynard Keynes and collected in Come uscire dalla crisi (How to overcome the crisis), curated by Pierluigi Sabbatini, can prove useful. It includes nine essays written just before he drafted his seminal work (the General Theory), during the Great Depression, in the 1930s. The essays, all written in a controversial and brilliant, yet easily accessible, style, tackle issues that were as important then as they are today – unemployment, lack of investments, international speculative trade – and that constitute as many elements of the economic crisis, which Keynes precisely describes before suggesting some economic policies to solve them.
This book includes writings on the level of wages, international issues and tensions, unemployment, public economic planning, the methods and paths to reach wealth, a state’s self-sufficiency, the presence of poverty even when prosperity prevails in an economic system. All topics that, needless to say, are examined not just through a refined analysis but also with astute and comprehensible language.
Reading Keynes is always a stimulating and informative experience – reading him in a deeply complex period and, in many ways, during a crisis, provides unusual interpretative tools that should certainly be employed and that remain irreplaceable.
Come uscire dalla crisi (How to overcome the crisis)
John Maynard Keynes
Pierluigi Sabbatini (curated by)
Laterza, 2004