John Maynard Keynes, Volume III (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Skidelsky
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Biography, history, and economics
- Time of Work: 1939-1946
- Setting: England and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: John Maynard Keynes, Lydia Lopokova, Janos Plesch, Henry Morgenthau, Henry Dexter White, Winston Spencer Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography, Economics
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Twentieth century, 1940’s, World War II, 1930’s, England or English people, Washington, D.C., Economics
- Locales: England, Washington, D.C.
Robert Skidelsky, professor of political economy at England’s University of Warwick, has for over two decades explored the life and career of John Maynard Keynes, the most influential and controversial economist of the twentieth century. John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed (1983) takes Keynes from his birth in 1883 through the end of World War I, which culminated in his brilliant polemic against the Treaty of Versailles, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919). The second volume, subtitled The Economist as Savior (1992) relates Keynes’s responses to the...
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