Essays on John Maynard Keynes

The book is a biography by many authors.

Milo Keynes (Edited by)

9780521296960, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 November 1979

352 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.464 kg

'How is anyone actually to review this book? Who on earth could possibly deal with so wide a variety of subjects and at the same time maintain that air of confident expertise we expect of a review? … Keynes himself could have done it easily … with what gusto he would have addressed himself to the task and complained, with half serious indignation, that there was no essay on Keynes the farmer.' Times Educational Supplement

The twenty-eight essays in this fascinating and important collection may be divided into three groups: the first is concerned with Keynes's early life and his relations with 'Bloomsbury' and Cambridge, the second with his major contributions to economics and to British and world affairs (written for the general reader as well as for economists), and the third deals with various aspects of his life and work which reveal the immense range of his intellectual and other interests. The book is, in effect, a biography by many authors.

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chronology and Bibliography
Contributors
Part I: 1. Maynard and Lydia Keynes Milo Keynes
2. A personal view Austin Robinson
3. A private view by a Cabinet Minister, 1919 Earl of Crawford and Balcarres
4. The early years Geoffrey Keynes
5. The undergraduate C. R. Fay
6. The Kingsman George Rylands
7. On loving Lydia Richard Buckle
8. The Bloomsbury Group Paul Levy
Part II: 9. The influence of Keynes on the economics of his time D. E. Moggridge
10. The Keynesian Revolution James Meade
11. The reception of the Keynesian Revolution Robert Skidelsky
12. Keynes and British economics Harry G. Johnson
13. What has become of the Keynesian Revolution? Joan Robinson
14. How Keynes came to America John Kenneth Galbraith
15. Keynes and the finance of the First World War N. H. Dimsdale
16. J. M. Keynes at the Paris Peace Conference Howard Elcock
17. Economic policy in the Second World War D. E. Moggridge
18. Bretton Woods Richard N. Gardner
Part III: 19. The international negotiator F. G. Lee
20. Keynes in the City Nicholas Davenport
21. Keynes and economic history Charles Wilson
22. Keynes as a philosopher R. B. Braithwaite
23. Maynard Keynes as a teacher A. F. W. Plumptre
24. Maynard Keynes as a biographer David Garnett
25. The concept of the Arts Council Mary Glasgow
26. The Cambridge Arts Theatre Norman Higgins
27. The picture collector Richard Shone with Duncan Grant
28. The book collector A. N. L. Munby
Index.

Subject Areas: Macroeconomics [KCB], Biography: general [BG]