Examining the emergence, in the inter-war years, of what came to be called 'Keynesian macroeconomics'.

Introduction; 1. An overview; Part I. The Wicksellians: 2. Wicksellian origins; 3. The macrodynamics of the Stockholm school; Part II. The Marshallian Tradition in Britain: 4. Cambridge cycle theory: Lavington, Pigou and Robertson; 5. The monetary element in the Cambridge tradition; 6. The Treatise on Money and related contributions; 7. British discussions of unemployment; Part III. American Analysis of Money and the Cycle: 8. American macroeconomics between World War I and the Depression; 9. American macroeconomics in the early 1930s; Part IV. Keynes, the Classical and IS-LM: 10. The General Theory; 11. The classics and Mr. Keynes; 12. IS-LM and the General Theory; 13. Selective synthesis; References.