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Essays in biography

(The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes, v. 10)

Macmillan , Cambridge University Press for the Royal Economic Society, 1972

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Edited by Donald Maggridge

First published in 1933, new ed. added biographies in 1951

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: uk ISBN 9780333107218

Description

'...among the glories of modern publishing...edited with exemplary authority and lack of fuss...' - London Review of Books This definitive edition contains all Keynes's published writings, including less accessible articles and letters to the press, as well as previously unpublished speeches, government memoranda and minutes, drafts and economic correspondence. No other writer in this century has done more than Maynard Keynes to change the ways in which economics is taught written. No other economist has done more to change the ways in which nations conduct their economic and financial affairs. The Collected Writings are indispensable to all economists. They are a vital reference work for students, academics and professionals alike.
Volume

: us : pbk ISBN 9780333402146

Description

'...among the glories of modern publishing...edited with exemplary authority and lack of fuss...' - London Review of Books This definitive edition contains all Keynes's published writings, including less accessible articles and letters to the press, as well as previously unpublished speeches, government memoranda and minutes, drafts and economic correspondence. No other writer in this century has done more than Maynard Keynes to change the ways in which economics is taught written. No other economist has done more to change the ways in which nations conduct their economic and financial affairs. The Collected Writings are indispensable to all economists. They are a vital reference work for students, academics and professionals alike.
Volume

: us ISBN 9780521221023

Description

Most of the essays in this book were first collected and published in 1933, when Keynes had reached a turning point in a highly successful career as an academic economist, as an official economic advisor, opponent of the reparation 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, 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 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 and Churchill; some classic accounts of the lives of economists; a pair of autobiographical memoirs; a short study of Newton; and many acute and affectionate character sketches of friends.

Table of Contents

  • Part I. Sketches of Politicians: 1. The Council of Four, Paris 1919
  • 2. Lloyd George: a fragment
  • 3. A meeting of the Council of Three
  • 4. Andrew Bonar Law
  • 5. Herbert Asquith
  • 6. Edwin Montagu
  • 7. Arthur Balfour
  • 8. Winston Churchill (1) Mr Churchill on the war of 1914-1918 (2) Mr Churchill on the peace
  • 9. Reginald McKenna
  • 10. The Great Villiers connection
  • 11. Trotsky on England
  • Part II. Lives of Economists: 12. Thomas Robert Malthus (1) The first of the Cambridge economists (2) The centenary allocution
  • 13. William Stanley Jevons
  • 14. Alfred Marshall
  • 15. Mary Paley Marshall
  • 16. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
  • 17. Herbert Somerton Foxwell
  • 18. Sir Henry Cunynghame
  • 19. Henry Higgs
  • 20. Alfred Hoare
  • Part III. Brief Sketches: 21. Wilhelm Lexis
  • 22. Frederic Hillersdon Keeling
  • 23. A. A. Tschuprow
  • 24. Benjamin Strong
  • 25. C. P. Sanger
  • 26. Walter Case
  • 27. George Broomhall
  • 28. Frederick Phillips
  • Part IV. His Friends in King's: 29. Frank Ramsey
  • 30. A. F. R. Wollaston
  • 31. W. E. Johnson
  • 32. William Herrick Macaulay
  • 33. Dilwyn Knox
  • 34. Julien Bell
  • Part V. Two Scientists: 35. Newton, the man
  • 36. Bernard Shaw and Isaac Newton
  • 37. Einstein
  • Part VI. Two Memoirs: 38. Melchoir: a defeated enemy
  • 39. My early beliefs.

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  • NCID
    BA00872227
  • ISBN
    • 0333107217
    • 0521221021
    • 0333402146
  • LCCN
    76133449
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London,New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 460 p., 16 leaves of plates
  • Size
    24 cm
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