This collection of essays is a plea for a renewal of policies based on the most fundamental ideas of Keynes as well as on recent developments in economic theory. The papers were first given at an international conference to commemorate the centenary of the birth of John Maynard Keynes.

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Part 1 Economic policies - three contributions: wages and prices, Raymond Barre; are Keynesian policies applicable to current conditions?, Jean-Marcel Jeanneney; the international monetary system, Jacques Delors. Part 2 Employment and wages: disequilibrium on the labour market, Edmond Malinvaud; money, wages and distribution, Gerard Grellet. Part 3 The international monetary economy: from national macroeconomics to world macroeconomics - a contribution to the macroeconomics of space, Paul Mandy; a tardy autopsy of the 1943 Keynes plan for an international clearing union - its merits and drawbacks, Robert Triffin; liquidity proposals for a new Bretton Woods plan, Paul Davidson. Part 4 Regulation and economic policy: the forms of organization implicit in the general theory - an interpretation of the success and crisis of Keynesian economic policies, Robert Boyer; the Keynesian critic of laissez-faire, Suzanne de Brunhoff; finance and adjustment in a monetary production economy, Marie-Helene Devillers; disequilibrium and regulation - a confrontation of the two approaches, Bernard Ducros.