Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist - Hardcover

Clarke, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1608190234 ISBN 13: 9781608190232

Publisher: Bloomsbury Press, 2009

Synopsis

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, iconoclastic public intellectual, peer of the realm, and political operative, as well as an openly homosexual Bohemian who befriended Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. In Keynes, noted historian Peter Clarke provides a timely and masterful 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Clarke was formerly a professor of modern history and Master of Trinity Hall at Cambridge. His many books include The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire, The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924–1936, and the acclaimed final volume of the Penguin History of Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900–2000. He lives in Suffolk, England, and Pender Island, British Columbia.

Review:

Praise for The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: 'Clarke has created a brilliant popular history ... he tells [the story] with such wit, verve and scholarly insight that one seems to encounter a brave new world' Piers Brendon, Sunday Telegraph 'There are few historians writing today who are more elegant and lucid than Clarke ... a triumph of stylish, thought-provoking history' Richard Aldous, Irish Times 'As this book majestically demonstrates, the empire tortuously, deceptively and often misleadingly progresses towards extinction' Jan Morris, Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1608190234
• ISBN 13: 9781608190232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224