Keynes : a critical life
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Keynes : a critical life
（Contributions in economics and economic history, no. 208）
Greenwood Press, 1999
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Bibliography: p. [305]-313
Includes index
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Description
Only a person of Keynes's unique character could have achieved what he did. After teaching neoclassical economics for two decades, he developed an extraordinary theory-extraordinary in that it built upon the theoretical complex he intended to overthrow and extraordinary in that it provided the best guidance for defeating the Depression of the 1930s and managing an economy thereafter. This biography shows how Keynes's personality left its stamp on his ideas, the connections between his all-too-human quirks and his theorizing, between his dominating personality and his success as a policymaker. Although sympathetic to the man, his aims, and his accomplishments, this is the first critical biography of John Maynard Keynes.
Based on the mass of material Keynes left behind, including hundreds of letters, the book shows how he thought, rationalized, and acted, as well as the connections between the fallible human and the abstract theory. It shows his transformation from an active homosexual to a contented married man-the relationship giving him a personal and social stability that was important to his achievement. It shows his superb confidence that he was right-even when he completely reversed his previous position-and his unshakable resolution to see his ideas carried out. This is A Critical Life-critical because Keynes's life had a critical impact, and because the book takes a critical look at that life.
Table of Contents
Preface: A Double Life Introduction: Private and Public Fathers (and Mothers) and Sons (and Daughters) Training Functioning "A Kind of Affection" (and a Sense of Responsibility): Keynes in Love Elective Affinities and Responsibilities: Keynes in Bloomsbury Retraining Life with Lydia: An Affair of State Married Life with Lydia: A British Institution A Life in Theory Afterlife Afterword Bibliography Index
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