A Guide to Keynes is a non-fiction work by Alvin Hansen, about John Maynard Keynes' work The General Theory. It was first published in 1953. Hansen's guide, 237 pages long. It explains Keynes's General Theory in a chapter-by-chapter fashion more accessible to a beginner. Alvin Hansen, once referred to as "the American Keynes", had brought the 1930s Keynesian economics revolution, along with other economists, to the United States. Source: Wikipedia (en)