the rise, fall, and return of the 20th century's most influential economist Clarke, P. F. creator text bibliography biography Biographies. nyu New York Bloomsbury Press 2009 1st U.S. ed. monographic eng

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211 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. 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. 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. Peter Clarke. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk--- Keynes, John Maynard 1883-1946 Keynesian economics Economists Great Britain Biography HB103.K47 C527 2009 330.15/6092 9781608190232 1608190234 2009030066 DLC 090724 20260622100324.0 15832775