Maynard Keynes
An Economist's Biography
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- $114.99
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- $114.99
Publisher Description
Based on an intimate knowledge of the subject and his environment, this biography of the most influential economist of the twentieth century traces Keynes' career on all its many levels. From academic Cambridge, to artistic Bloomsbury, to official Whitehall and to the City, we see the intellectual roots of Keynes' achievements and failures. We also
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This lengthy, plodding biography is for economists, historians and other specialists and will daunt the general reader. The book draws heavily on John Maynard Keynes's 30-volume Collected Writings , which Moggridge edited, to paint a rounded picture of the English economist as monetary theorist, journalist, negotiator, confidant of politicians, diplomat, friend of the Bloomsbury circle, investor and arts administrator. An economics professor at the University of Toronto, Moggridge explains how Keynes (1883-1946) belatedly came to economics through philosophy, explores Keynes's intuitive working out of his ideas, and reviews his impact as a shaper of British financial policy and an architect of the postwar international monetary system. Keynes's marriage to Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova and his many homosexual affairs are cursorily covered in a workmanlike, massively detailed biography from which the inner man is largely absent. Photos.
