The General Theory is a ‘Difficult’ Book

The General Theory is a “difficult” book, not because it contains technical terms or is written in an obscure manner. On the contrary, Keynes insisted that the text be written in ordinary language, and his prose is notoriously fascinating. It is difficult because it goes against habitual ways of thinking, both yesterday and today. It is a difficult book because the old ideas have remained ingrained in most contemporary economics and the Keynesian revolution has not succeeded to uproot them from economists' minds, which in the main are still working with concepts like scarcity, equilibrium, maximization, methodological individualism, and alike. There are however many branches in the so-called heterodox economics where the Keynesian seeds have been successfully planted, and it is heart-warming to see that many of them have become growing and flourishing endeavours.