num_pages: 256
description: A guide to John Maynard Keynesone of the greatest economic minds of the twentieth centuryfor today's investor.John Maynard Keynes was a many-sided figure  world-changing economist architect of the post-War international monetary system bestselling author a Baron in the House of Lords and key member of the Bloomsbury group. He also had the talent and ability to make vast sums of money in the stock market. At the time of his death Keynes' net worthalmost entirely built through successful stock investmentsamounted to the present-day equivalent of more than $30 million. Additionally the college endowment fund he managed had massively outperformed the broader market over a two-decade period. Keynes was a member of that rare breedan economist who flourished not only in the rarefied heights of ivory tower academia but also amidst the hustle and votility of the financial markets. How does a study of Keynesthe shrewd stock picker and star fund managerbenefit the modern investor? In this volatile era Keynes' observations on stock market behaviour in fact are more relevant than ever. Accessible and informative this book identifies what modern masters of the market have taken from Keynes and used in their own investing stylesand what you too can learn from one of the most influential economic thinkers of the twentieth century.
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title: Investing with Keynes: How the World's Greatest Economist Overturned Conventional Wisdom and Made a Fortune on the Stock Market
publisher: Pegasus Books