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Carter, Zachary D.
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Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946.
Economists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Economics -- History -- 20th century.
Bloomsbury group.
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Carter, Zachary D.
Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946.
Economists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Economics -- History -- 20th century.
Bloomsbury group.
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The
price
of
peace
:
money
,
democracy
, and the
life
of
John
Maynard
Keynes
/ Zachary D. Carter.
by
Carter, Zachary D.
Random House, 2020.
Call #:
330.157092 C325p
Subjects
Keynes
,
John
Maynard
, 1883-1946.
Economists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Economics -- History -- 20th century.
Bloomsbury group.
ISBN:
9780525509035
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxii, 628 p., [8] plages of plates : ill. (some color) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- After the gold rush -- Blood
money
-- Paris and its discontents -- Consequences -- From metaphysics to
money
--- Prolegomena to a new socialism -- The great crash -- Phoenix -- The end of scarcity -- Came the revolution -- War and counterrevolution -- Martyr to the good
life
-- The aristocracy strikes back -- The affluent society and its enemies -- The beginning of the end -- The return of the nineteenth century -- The second Gilded Age -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"In the spring of 1934, Virginia Woolf sketched an affectionate three-page "biographical fantasy" of her great friend,
John
Maynard
Keynes
, attempting to encompass no less than 25 themes, which she jotted down at its opening: 'Politics. Art. Dancing. Letters. Economics. Youth. The Future. Glands. Genealogies. Atlantis. Mortality. Religion. Cambridge. Eton. The Drama. Society. Truth. Pigs. Sussex. The History of England. America. Optimism. Stammer. Old Books. Hume.' In truth, his
life
contained even more. Years earlier, as a young Cambridge philosopher and economist,
Keynes
spent his days moving between government service and academia, and when he was called up to the Treasury on the eve of World War I, he relished an opportunity to save the empire. He worked dutifully, but as the aftermath of the war and the disastrous Versailles Treaty unfolded, with its harsh demands for German reparations,
Keynes
saw how the strain on its citizens might encourage would-be authoritarians. The experience began a career that spanned two world wars and a global depression and which often found him in a Cassandra-like position, arguing against widely accepted ideas that he saw as outdated or dangerous. His influential ideas made it to America and FDR's New Deal in the Great Depression, and through his books, especially The General Theory, he became a founding giant in the economics profession. Even as his star rose, however, the most important allegiance of
Keynes
's
life
was to writers and artists. He valued his membership in the iconic Bloomsbury Group above any position, and he forever envied the talents of his friends like Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey, often providing them with much needed financial support as the most gainfully employed member of the group. In return, they gave him a moral compass and inspired his vision of what society should be"--Publisher.
Genre:
Biographies.
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1
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Adult Biography
330.157092 C325p
Core Collection - Adult
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Jul 17, 2024
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