1st Edition
Henry A. Abbati: Keynes' Forgotten Precursor Selected Writings
Acknowledgements Biography of Henry A. Abbati Introduction Part 1: The Unclaimed Wealth: How Money Stops Production Prologue 1. The Problem 2. The Limits of Production 3. Purchasing Power 4. The Monetary System 5. The Supply of Money 6. Credit Money 7. Paper Money 8. Saving 9. Saving and the Utilisiation of Purchasing Power 10. The Abuse of Surplus 11. The Inefficiency of Currently Proposed Remedies Part II: The Final Buyer 1. Introduction (1927) 2. The Potential Supply of Money 3. The Quantity of Money 4. Determining Factors of the Condition of Markets and the Behaviour of Final Buyers 5. The Nature and Effects of Saving 6. The Irregular Final-Buying by Countries Abroad from the Home Country 7. The Irregular Final-Buying by Governments 8. The Irregular Final-Buying Resulting from the Activities of Producers and Distributors 9. The Cry for Increased Consumption 10. What is Trade Depression? PART III a) The Economic Lessons of 1929-31 Bulletin No. 1: The Beliefs, Objects and Methods of the Unclaimed Weath Utlilization Committee Bulletin No. 2: Insufficient Buying and Trade Depression Bulletin No. 7: General Trade Depression in the Making Bulletin No. 8: Budgetary Policy in the Present Situation The irregular final-buying resulting from the activities of producers and distributors b) The Search for Confidence in 1932 Bulletin No. 12: The Case for a 'Moratorium' for Taxpayers in the Over-Deflated, Gold-Logged Countries Bulletin No. 13 Statement on the Case for a 'Monatorium' for Taxpayers in the Over-Deflated Countries Bulletin No 14 The Economic Crisis and the Disarmament Conference c) Economic Readjustment in 1933 Bulletin No. 26 Gentlemen Prefer Gold. II: A Midsummer Night's Dream of 1928 Bulletin No. 27: America Takes the Lead. I: The Heman PART IV a) National Debt and Taxation b) What is Saved? c) Lord Keynes' Central Thesis and the Concept of Unclaimed Wealth d) The New Economic Theories and the Depression of 1929-1933
Biography
Serena Di Gaspare is Assistant Professor of Political Sciences at the University of Turin, Italy.
"Di Gaspare surprises us with the forgotten writings of a novel precursor of Keynes, who should have been cited in the General Theory. The work of Abbati is ever more relevant as many of his remedies against the recession are compatible with Keynesian expansion and incompatible with mainstream dogma – not a surprising feature since Abbati learned economics through business practice." - Marc Lavoie, Full Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, Canada
"Serena Di Gaspare provides a valuable service by making available the writings of Henry A. Abbati. Scholars in the History of Economic Thought should find the book quite important and useful." - Martin H. Wolfson, University of Notre Dame, USA
