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The General Theory published Ninety Years Ago

04/02/2026 08:30

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The General Theory published Ninety Years Ago

di Antonio De Chiara - Sono trascorsi novanta anni dalla sua pubblicazione il 4 febbraio 1936 a Londra

EUR/ENG - The fourth of February within the decennial cycle concluding in the numeral six represents a momentous anniversary in the annals of economic thought as this date commemorates the inaugural publication of John Maynard Keynes’s magnum opus titled The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

As of 2026 nine decades have elapsed since this seminal text first emerged from the intellectual ferment of the interwar period and the Great Cantabrian as he is often called in homage to his enduring association with the University of Cambridge released the work on February 4 1936 after an arduous gestation period characterized by rigorous and often pugnacious dialectic exchanges with a close-knit circle of colleagues.

With a prescience that bordered on the prophetic Keynes himself remarked that the treatise would largely revolutionize the way the world thinks about economic problems and this claim has since been vindicated with profound emphasis across nearly a century of global policy and theory.

Upon its initial release the work acted as a theoretical fault line that precipitated a structural schism within the discipline by polarizing the academic community into those who hailed the text as a radical departure from classical orthodoxy those who dismissed it as an intellectually sophisticated regression toward mercantilist fallacies and those moderate scholars who sought to synthesize its innovative concepts with existing paradigms despite maintaining significant reservations.

In the ninety years since its debut The General Theory has achieved an unprecedented level of scholarly and political ubiquity by serving as the foundational bedrock for diverse and competing schools of thought ranging from Neo-Keynesian synthesis to Post-Keynesian heterodoxy which all vie to claim its prestigious legacy.

Beyond the ivory tower Keynes’s insights have been instrumental in the architectural design of modern social systems and have fundamentally altered the trajectory of global economic policy while redefining the socio-economic responsibilities of the state in a manner that ensures the text remains not merely a historical artifact but a living instrument of economic inquiry that continues to dictate the terms of debate in our contemporary age.

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EUR/ITA - Il 4 febbraio è una data speciale per i cultori della teoria economica. E lo è a partire dal quel 1936, anno in cui ricade il giorno della pubblicazione della General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money di John Maynard Keynes. La cadenza decennale di questo giorno di febbraio rimanda infatti a quella che è la pubblicazione della più diffusa e studiata del grande economista inglese e quindi, in questo 2026, ricadono precisamente novanta anni dalla prima edizione di Macmillan. (Nella foto in alto) 

La storia del pensiero economico e i biografi di Keynes, ci vengono in soccorso nel ricordarci che il grande cantabrigense, come spesso è definito, diede alle stampe la General Theory dopo molteplici bozze discusse animatamente con amici e colleghi. Secondo lo stesso autore questa sua opera «will largely revolutionize the way the world thinks about economic problems». Il libro divise subito gli economisti tra chi la considerò un’opera rivoluzionaria, chi la giudicò un ritorno alle idee mercantiliste, e chi si limitò ad apprezzarne alcuni contenuti con molti distinguo. Ma si tratta in ogni caso di un successo senza precedenti che nel giro di qualche anno farà di Keynes, scomparso nel 1946, un vero e proprio caposcuola ovvero di una visione dell'economia dalla quale si sono diramate in poco meno di un secolo intere scuole, impegnate a contendersene la prestigiosa eredità sulla quale costruire politiche economiche di interi sistemi sociali e che ne hanno moltiplicato fama ed effetti sulla storia sociale degli ultimi novanta anni.

 

Antonio De Chiara @euroeconomie.it*

 

* This contribution is not a journalistic article but an analytical brief - Questo contributo non è un articolo giornalistico ma un brief analitico


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