Keynes
Subtitle: the rise, fall, and return of the 20th century's most Influential economist
By: Peter Clarke
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781608193967
Subjects: Keynesian economics; Economists; Biography
Description: The ideas of John Maynard Keynes inspired the New Deal and helped rebuild world economies after World War II--and were later dismissed as "depression economics." Then came the great meltdown of 2008. Market forces that the world relied on suddenly failed to self-correct--and Keynes's doctrine of corrective action in an imperfect world became more relevant than ever. Keynes was not a traditional economist: he was a polemicist, an iconoclastic public intellectual, a peer of the realm, and a political operative, as well as an openly homosexual bohemian who befriended Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. Here, historian Peter Clarke provides a timely accounting of Keynes's life and work, bringing his genius and skepticism alive for an era fraught with economic difficulties that he surely would have relished solving.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : A roller-coaster reputation; title: 'A religion and no morals' : John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1924; title: 'On the extreme left of celestial space' : John Maynard Keynes, 1924-1946; title: 'In the long run we are all dead' : rethinking economic policy; title: 'Animal spirits' : rethinking economic theory; title: Epilogue : British and American Keynesianism.