John Maynard Keynes

Broschiertes Buch

Essays in Biography

Beschreibung

Most of the essays in this book were first collected and published in 1933, when Keynes had reached a turning point in what had by then become a highly successful career as an academic economist, as an official economic advisor, opponent of the reparations imposed on Germany, and critic of the orthodox economic policies of British governments. Before devoting himself fully to the final stages of his journey towards the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money , Keynes put together these examples of one of his favourite literary genres, the psychological portrait and biographical sketch. With the additions made in 1951 and 1972, the book now contains almost all of Keynes's biographical writings: his savage portraits of the architects of the treaty of Versailles and sketches of other politicians, including Asquith, Balfour, Bonar Law, and Churchill; some classic accounts of the lives of economists, including Malthus, Jevons, Marshall, Edgeworth, and Foxwell; a pair of autobiographical memoirs; a short study of Newton; and many acute and affectionate character sketches of friends. Keynes shows himself here as a literary artist whose work does not suffer by comparison with that of his two friends within the Bloomsbury Group, Virgina Woolf and Lytton Strachey.
This new edition of Keynes' classic text includes an Introduction by Donald Winch

Autor

DONALD WINCH is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex; he was educated at the London School of Economics and Princeton University and has written extensively on the history of economics and the intellectual history of political economy from Adam Smith to Keynes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• 2010 edition
• Seitenzahl: 495
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 814g
• ISBN-13: 9780230249585
• ISBN-10: 0230249582
• Artikelnr.: 29734026