Keynes's General Theory After Seventy Years (International Economic Association)

We are very grateful to the Monte dei Paschi di Siena for its generous sponsorship of the International Economic Association conference “Keynes’s General Theory After Seventy Years”, July 3 to 6, 2006, to the University of Siena for its support of the conference, and to Valerie Natzios and Robert Mundell for their wonderful hospitality at the Palazzo Mundell in Santa Colomba, where the conference was held. In addition to the more formal papers collected here, the participants in the conference had the great treat of hearing C. Lowell Harris’s recollections of how Keynes’s General Theory was received at Columbia University in 1937, when Professor Harris began his graduate studies there. We thank Fay Sun for her work on the index to this volume. Thanks are also due to Siena for being Siena: in addition to the seventieth anniversary of the publication of Keynes’s General Theory, the conference also marked the centenary of Keynes’s visit to Siena, and one can easily understand why he was so delighted with Siena and Tuscany.