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The German Edition of Keynes’s General Theory: Controversies on the Preface

A Research Annual

ISBN: 978-1-78441-154-1, eISBN: 978-1-78441-153-4

Publication date: 18 April 2015

Abstract

The first foreign-language publication of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes was published in German in the same year as the English original in 1936. The article discusses some quality problems of the translation, but focuses in particular on the controversies which evolved around interpretations of the Preface Keynes wrote for the German edition. Whereas a margin of doubt remains as to the responsibility for the text which finally appeared in German, any accusations that Keynes had sympathies for or was indifferent to the Nazi regime are clearly rejected.

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Acknowledgement

The chapter was written within the research project ‘Economic e-translations into and from European Languages’ financed by the EU within the Erasmus Life Long Learning Programme.

Citation

Hagemann, H. (2015), "The German Edition of Keynes’s General Theory: Controversies on the Preface", A Research Annual (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 32), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 159-166. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0743-415420140000032007

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