이 책은 고용, 이자, 화폐, 재정 등 모든 거시 경제경책들과 거시경제학을 정리한 케인즈 혁명의 결실이라고 할 수 있다. 유효수요, 유동성선호, 이자율, 통화량, 자본의 한계효율, 저축과 투자의 갭, 투자승수, 재정투자 등 현대 거시경제학의 핵심 키워드를 이해할 수 있다. 또한 당면문제를 해결하기 위한 방법론을 배우는 데 있어서도 유용하다. (개역판)

BOOK I INTRODUCTION 3 (34)
 CHAPTER 1 THE GENERAL THEORY 3 (1)
 CHAPTER 2 THE POSTULATES OF THE CLASSICAL 4 (19)
 ECONOMICS
 CHAPTER 3 THE PRINCIPLE OF EFFECTIVE DEMAND 23 (14)
 BOOK II DEFINITIONS AND IDEAS 37 (52)
 CHAPTER 4 THE CHOICE OF UNITS 37 (9)
 CHAPTER 5 EXPECTATION AS DETERMINING OUTPUT 46 (6)
 AND EMPLOYMENT
 CHAPTER 6 THE DEFINITION OF INCOME, SAVING 52 (22)
 AND INVESTMENT
 Appendix on User Cost 66 (8)
 CHAPTER 7 THE MEANING OF SAVING AND 74 (15)
 INVESTMENT, FURTHER CONSIDERED
 BOOK III THE PROPENSITY TO CONSUME 89 (46)
 CHAPTER 8 THE PROPENSITY TO CONSUME: I. THE 89 (18)
 OBJECTIVE FACTORS
 CHAPTER 9 THE PROPENSITY TO CONSUME: II. THE 107(6)
 SUBJECTIVE FACTORS
 CHAPTER 10 THE MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO 113(22)
 CONSUME AND THE MULTIPLIER
 BOOK IV THE INDUCEMENT TO INVEST 135(122)
 CHAPTER 11 THE MARGINAL EFFICIENCY OF CAPITAL 135(12)
 CHAPTER 12 THE STATE OF LONG-TERM EXPECTATION 147(18)
 CHAPTER 13 THE GENERAL THEORY OF THE RATE OF 165(10)
 INTEREST
 CHAPTER 14 THE CLASSICAL THEORY OF THE RATE 175(19)
 OF INTEREST
 Appendix on the Rate of Interest in 186(8)
 Marshall's Principles of Economics,
 Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy
 and elsewhere
 CHAPTER 15 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND BUSINESS 194(16)
 INCENTIVES TO LIQUIDITY
 CHAPTER 16 SUNDRY OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE 210(12)
 OF CAPITAL
 CHAPTER 17 THE ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES OF 222(23)
 INTEREST AND MONEY
 CHAPTER 18 THE GENERAL THEORY OF EMPLOYMENT 245(12)
 RE-STATED
 BOOK V MONEY-WAGES AND PRICES 257(56)
 CHAPTER 19 CHANGES IN MONEY-WAGES 257(23)
 Appendix on Prof. Pigou's Theory of 272(8)
 Unemployment
 CHAPTER 20 THE EMPLOYMENT FUNCTION 280(12)
 CHAPTER 21 THE THEORY OF PRICES 292(21)
 BOOK VI SHORT NOTES SUGGESTED BY THE GENERAL 313(72)
 THEORY
 CHAPTER 22 NOTES ON THE TRADE CYCLE 313(20)
 CHAPTER 23 NOTES ON MERCANTILISM, THE USURY 333(39)
 LAWS, STAMPED MONEY AND THEORIES OF
 UNDER-CONSUMPTION
 CHAPTER 24 CONCLUDING NOTES ON THE SOCIAL 372(13)
 PHILOSOPHY TOWARDS WHICH THE GENERAL THEORY
 MIGHT LEAD
 INDEX 385