First reactions to The general theory -- An economist from Poland -- Generalizing The general theory -- Those Cambridge controversies -- Outside Cambridge: the first US post Keynesian -- Against the mainstream: post Keynesian economics in the 1970s -- Economic heresy around the world -- Money and the monetarists -- Uncertainty, expectations and method -- Keynes, Kalecki, Sraffa: coherence? -- Post Keynesians and other deviants -- A promise that bounced?