KEYNES (John Maynard).
The Means to Prosperity.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, WITH A NEW PREFACE BY KEYNES
The first American edition, with a new preface by Keynes addressed to the American reader, of this ‘essay in persuasion’ in which Keynes argued with new force and extensive detail for public spending as the way out of depression, constituting ‘almost deficit finance in the full sense’ (Harrod, The Life of John Maynard Keynes, p. 441). As well as the new preface, the present American edition was also further revised, incorporating material from Keynes’s article ‘The Multiplier’ originally published in The New Statesman and the Nation (Moggridge D 175).
The Means to Prosperity is an expanded version of four articles that originally appeared in The Times between 13 March and 16 March 1933, each concerning the upcoming London Economic Conference of June and July. The articles were then revised for a book edition published by MacMillan and Co. in London in the same year. There is also another variant of the American edition with yellow wrappers printed in red, without established precedence.
Moggridge C 10.2.
