Henry Simons on Keynes' "General Theory"

Richard Ebeling emails:


Dear Bob:

One of the "forgotten" reviews of Keynes' "General Theory" seems to be Henry Simons' piece on it that appeared in "The Christian Century" (July 22, 1936). It is not reprinted in the collection of Simons'
essays, "Economics of the Free Society." Nor is it reprinted in Henry Hazlitt's edited collection, "The Critics of Keynesian Economics."

Henry Simons was one of the leading members of the "older" Chicago School of Economics in the 1930s and 1940s. et, it is one of the sharpest and most critical reviews of the book, equal in tone (and nastiness!) to the one that Joseph A. Schumpeter penned, and which is reprinted in Schumpeter's "Essays" edited by
Richard V. Clemence in 1951 (pp. 160-164).

I am enclosing it as a pdf for your "pleasure."

Best,
Richard

Simons' review is here.