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10. GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT, INTEREST AND MONEY
Author: John Maynard Keynes
Publication date: 1936
Score: 23
Summary: Keynes was a member of the British elite--educated at Eton
and Cambridge--who as a liberal Cambridge economics professor wrote
General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in the midst of the
Great Depression. The book is a recipe for ever-expanding government.
When the business cycle threatens a contraction of industry, and thus
of jobs, he argued, the government should run up deficits, borrowing
and spending money to spur economic activity. FDR adopted the idea as
U.S. policy, and the U.S. government now has a $2.6-trillion annual
budget and an $8-trillion dollar debt.
HONORABLE MENTION (in order of the judge's rating)
These books won votes from two or more judges:
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by Paul Ehrlich
Score: 22
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Score: 18
The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
Score: 17
Coming of Age in Samoa
by Margaret Mead
Score: 11
Unsafe at Any Speed
by Ralph Nader
Score: 11
Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
Score: 10
Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Score: 9
The Greening of America
by Charles Reich
Score: 9
The Limits to Growth
by Club of Rome
Score: 4
Descent of Man
by Charles Darwin
Score: 2