The Life and Times of J. Neville Keynes
Subtitle: A Beacon in the Tempest
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing; Edward Elgar Pub.
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781840645347
Subjects: Biography: general; Economic theory & philosophy; Business & Economics; Biography / Autobiography; Business/Economics; General; Economic History; Social Scientists & Psychologists; 1852-1949; Biography; Economists; Great Britain; Keynes, John Neville,
Description: "This biography of an economist who was also a logician and administrator, is based mainly upon his virtually continuous diary. The diary provides an intimate commentary on the academic developments and conflicts in which he was closely involved as well as on his life as undergraduate, bachelor and family man."

"It is the insight into J. Neville Keynes's personality, as well as his moral integrity as a diarist, which gives this book a particularly illuminating perspective from which to view the social and educational revolution that transformed Cambridge University during the last quarter of the nineteenth and first quarter of the twentieth century. The Life and Times of J. Neville Keynes faithfully records the shifts in, and debates on, the educational, constitutional and financial context within which the academic revolution gradually and often stormily developed and in which J. Neville Keynes played such a vital and integral part."--Jacket.