Olivares, Mário Gómez2022-05-052022-05-051999Olivares, Mário Gómez .1999. “Algumas reflexões a propósito do pensamento de J.M. Keynes sobre as relações económicas internacionais” . Instituto Superior de Economia. CEDIN. Documento de Trabalho nº 3/99.http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/24237In this article we intend to discuss a problem which arises in the General Theory by J.M.Keynes: the fact that the author only takes into account a closed economy as a reference for this work. Apparently, such fact would conceal not only a contradiction with his previous work but also a paradox with reference to his participation in the process of the building of the post-war international relationship. We review here the ways in which Keynes discuss certain international questions, relating his views with the period in which the author puts into question the free-trade, the gold standard and the economic laissez-faire. Furthermore, we put into a evidence the author's views in the General Theory, confronting them with the essentials of his theoretical thought and the practical implications he derives from the disturbed and troublesome relations between the main western capitalist economies.porEconomic ThinkingInternational Economic RelationsKeynesian EconomicPensamento económicoRelações económicas internacionaisEconomia Keynesianaworking paper