Henry A. Abbati: Keynes' Forgotten Precursor

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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