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050 00 $aHB103.K47$bC527 2009
082 00 $a330.15/6092$aB$222
100 1 $aClarke, P. F.
245 10 $aKeynes :$bthe rise, fall, and return of the 20th century's most influential economist /$cPeter Clarke.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury Press,$c2009.
300 $a211 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
520 $aThe 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.
600 10 $aKeynes, John Maynard,$d1883-1946.
650 0 $aKeynesian economics.
650 0 $aEconomists$zGreat Britain$vBiography.