Between the outbreak of war in 1939 and his death in April 1946, Keynes
was closely involved in the management of Britain's war economy and the
planning of the post-war world. This volume, the sixth dealing with this
period, focuses on several aspects of post-war planning: the discussions
surrounding relief and reconstruction, the attempts to produce a
post-war scheme to stabilise the prices of primary products, and the
discussions surrounding Britain's programme of reconstruction, most
notably the Beveridge programme for social insurance and the policy of
full employment. It contains Keynes's contributions to the discussion of
these issues, most notably his primary product scheme and his longer
papers on the tactics and problems of a full employment policy.