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What did John Maynard Keynes write?

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John Maynard Keynes’s most influential work was The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1935–36). His other works included Indian Currency and Finance (1913), The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Treatise on Probability (1921), A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), A Treatise on Money (1930), and many scholarly and journalistic articles.

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