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John Maynard Keynes (Hardcover, New)
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John Maynard Keynes (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Historical Biographies
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John Maynard Keynes is arguably the most important and influential
economist of the twentieth century, and stands alongside Adam Smith
and Karl Marx as one of the most famous economic thinkers of all
time. Keynes's radical reassessment of the accepted principles of
economics led to new ways of thinking about how to deal with
financial crises and economic depressions, and encouraged
governments to increase levels of state investment to create
economic growth. This historical biography shows how Keynes was
more than an academic theorist and how his policy proposals had a
significant impact on the economic and financial architecture of
many Western countries from the 1920s onward, and on the post-war
international financial system. It also tells the story of his
colourful private life - Keynes was an active member of the
Bloomsbury group of artists and intellectuals, he entertained
various 'secret' male lovers in his youth, he married a famous
Russian ballerina in 1925 and he was also an astute collector of
fine art and antiquarian books. Vincent Barnett emphasizes the
relationship between the personal and professional by presenting
the book chapters in pairs, examining first the central features of
Keynes's life, personal development and policy ideas over the
period in question, and then the theoretical content of his major
writings from the same period. Barnett argues controversially that
allowing psychology a much greater role within economics was a main
but often-neglected feature of The General Theory of Employment,
Interest and Money, and that Keynes's policy writings were more
concerned with the Britain's national interest than is sometimes
recognised. The result is a concise new biography that is both
intellectually rigorous and easily accessible to students and
anyone else seeking to understand the life and work of England's
foremost economist.
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