Keynes attacks the return to gold

Consequences

what this set in motion, following the causal links

• preceded Keynes publishes “The Great Slump of 1930” 1930 The gold-standard argument became part of the wider Depression diagnosis.
• preceded Publication of The General Theory 1936 The Depression journalism preceded the theoretical synthesis.
• enabled Hicks turns Keynes into the IS-LM diagram 1937 Hicks formalized a teachable model from Keynes book.
• enabled Congress passes the Employment Act of 1946 1946 Keynesian economics made full-employment policy intellectually legible after the war.
• preceded Samuelson's Economics mainstreams the Keynesian synthesis 1948 Policy adoption and textbook synthesis reinforced each other in the postwar settlement.