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The first chapter of The General Theory (only half a page long) has a similarly radical tone: I have called this book the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, placing the emphasis on the prefix general. The object of such a title is to contrast the character of my arguments and conclusions with those of the classical theory of the ...
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens' second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person.
Keynes developed the first upper-lower probabilistic interval approach to probability in chapters 15 and 17 of this book, as well as having developed the first decision weight approach with his conventional coefficient of risk and weight, c, in chapter 26. In addition to his academic work, the 1920s saw Keynes active as a journalist selling his ...
Set in 19th century London, Jack Maggs is a reworking of the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations.The story centres around Jack Maggs (the equivalent of Magwitch) and his quest to meet his 'son' Henry Phipps (the equivalent of Pip), who has mysteriously disappeared, having closed up his house and dismissed his household.
John Wemmick is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1861 novel Great Expectations. He is Mr Jaggers's clerk and the protagonist Pip's friend. [ 1 ] Some scholars consider him to be the "most modern man in the book".
The great puzzle of effective demand with which Malthus had wrestled vanished from economic literature. [28] The nexus between the Book IV theory and the Chapter 3 interpretation is the portrayal of the schedule of the marginal efficiency of capital as a demand function (which Hicks accepted).
The title page of the first volume of the three-volume, first edition of Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins (1872). The three-volume novel (sometimes three-decker or triple decker [note 1]) was a standard form of publishing for British fiction during the nineteenth century.
The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. [2] The book won the National Book Award [3] and Pulitzer Prize [4] for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.