This post is so cool I'm going to repost it in it's entirety:

Tyler Cowen writes:

Marginal Revolution: New MR book club - Keynes's General Theory: I will go through the book [Keynes's General Theory], chapter by chapter, with an eye toward a deeper understanding of what Keynes wrote and why it is, as Greg says, so important. I'm not yet sure what kind of pace I can maintain but order your copy here, now. The Kindle version is only $3.96. We'll do chapters 1 and 2 by next Monday, eight days from now.

The Marxists.org version of the General Theory is free:http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/general-theory/

I am of a different view than Tyler. I think that the most important things by Keynes to read do notinclude the General Theory. My list of General Theory-length reading from Keynes is this:

• Keynes (1919), The Economic Consequences of the Peacehttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/15776/15776-8.txt
• Keynes (1924), A Tract on Monetary Reform No etext
• Keynes (1932), Essays in Persuasion No etext
  • Keynes (1919), "Inflation"
  • Keynes (1923), "Social Consequences of Changes in the Value of Money"
  • Keynes (1925), "The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill"
  • Keynes (1926), "The End of Laissez-Faire"http://www.panarchy.org/keynes/laissezfaire.1926.html
  • Keynes (1930), "The Great Slump of 1930" http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/keynes-slump/keynes-slump-00-h.html
  • Keynes (1931), "The Consequences to the Banks of the Collapse in Money Values"
• Keynes (1932), "The World Economic Outlook"http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/budget/keynesf.htm
• Keynes (1933), "An Open Letter to President Roosevelt"http://newdeal.feri.org/misc/keynes2.htm
• Keynes (1938), "A Private Letter to President Roosevelt"http://delong.typepad.com/egregious_moderation/2008/12/john-maynard-ke.html

and I am tremendously annoyed at the absence of etext versions of the Tract on Monetary Reformand Essays in Persuasion.

Special bonus:

• Jacob Viner (1936), "Mr. Keynes on the Causes of Unemployment"http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/1882505.pdf