Keynes : the rise, fall, and return of the 20th century's most influential economist / Peter Clarke.
Clarke, P. F.
2009
HB103.K47 C527 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Keynes : the rise, fall, and return of the 20th century's most influential economist / Peter Clarke.
Author Clarke, P. F.
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 9781608190232 (alk. paper)
1608190234 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
Language English
Description 211 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number HB103.K47 C527 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 330.15/6092 B
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : A roller-coaster reputation
'A religion and no morals' : John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1924
'On the extreme left of celestial space' : John Maynard Keynes, 1924-1946
'In the long run we are all dead' : rethinking economic policy
'Animal spirits' : rethinking economic theory
Epilogue : British and American Keynesianism.

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