Keynes and Marx

Keynes was an elitist and pro-capitalist economist, whom the left should embrace with caution. But his analysis provides a concreteness missing from Marx and engages with critical issues of the modern world that Marx could not have foreseen. This book argues that a critical Marxist engagement can simultaneously increase the power of Keynes’s insight and enrich Marxism.

To understand Keynes, whose work is liberally invoked but seldom read, Dunn explores him in the context of the extraordinary...