Keynes : The Return of the Master

from walbat

What would Keynes have done? That, superficially, is the main thrust of historian Robert Skidelsky's analysis of today's Great Recession. Skidelsky is the foremost biographer of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), the English economist who effectively created the field of macroeconomics and whose th...

from vguy

This little booklet - perhaps monograph is the best word - is packed with interesting info and thought provoking ideas. First off, Skidelsky is clearly a fan: Keynes appears to have been not only a great mind but a nice bloke - rare combination. He had a moral conscience as well as a broad cultur...

from jcbrunner

Remedial reading is seldom entertaining. Lord Skidelsky has written an outstanding multi-volume biography of the 20th century's greatest economist, John Maynard Keynes. This book serves as an introduction to those who are too lazy to read the biography (or its abridgment - to which I plead guilty...

from matthewpoggi

Ideas of a master written by one.

from matthewpoggi

Ideas of a master written by one.