Title: John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946 : economist, philosopher, statesman /
Authors: Skidelsky, Robert, 1939-; Skidelsky, Robert Jacob Alexander, 1939-; Skidelsky, Robert, 1939-
Publisher: Penguin Books,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Keynes, John Maynard,; Economists Great Britain Biography
Abstract: "John Maynard Keynes was one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth century, a luminary whose groundbreaking ideas remain even today at the center of political and economic discussion. In this work of clarity and erudition, Robert Skidelsky offers a revised and abridged version of his award-winning three-volume biography of Keynes, which has long been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. In one definitive volume, Skidelsky examines in its entirely the intellectual and ideological journey that led an extraordinarily gifted young man to concern himself with the practical problems of an age overshadowed by war. John Maynard Keynes offers a sympathetic account of the life and influences of a passionate visionary."--Jacket.
Contents: pt. 1. Duty and goodness. Dynastic origins ; Cambridge civilisation : Sidgwick and Marshall ; Growing up in Cambridge ; Eton ; The Cambridge undergraduate ; My early beliefs ; Cambridge and London ; Lytton, Duncan, Maynard -- pt. 2. On the brink. Pre-war economic interests ; Privates lives ; An Indian summer -- pt. 3. The end of innocence. Adapting to war ; Keynes and the First World War ; Touch and go ; Zigzagging : Keynes at the Paris Peace Conference ; Civilisation under threat -- pt. 4. The economic consequences of the war. Keynes in the 1920s ; The transition to peace ; Probability and goodness ; Russian and German affiars ; Monetary reform -- pt. 5. The cross of gold. Gold and marriage ; Keyne's middle way ; Working with Lloyd George ; The riddle of savings ; The slump -- pt. 6. The economist to the rescue. Portrait of an unusual economist ; The practical visionary ; New deals ; Firing at the moon ; pt. 7. Paying for the war. Curing invalidism ; The middle way in war ; The dragons of war ; Envoy extraordinary ; Keynes in wartime -- pt. 8. Better than the last time. Keynes's 'new order' ; The strange case of Harry Dexter White ; Building a better Britain ; The great compromise ; The American way of business -- pt. 9. The last battle. Temptation ; Averting a financial Dunkirk ; The light is gone -- Epilogue : Keynes's legacy.