Keynes
The Return of the Master
$44.53
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2010
Summary
In the current financial crisis, Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard, dusted down, consulted, cited, invoked, and appealed to regarding why events have unfolded as they have and how a rescue operation can be effected. Why have we gone back so emphatically to the ideas of an economist who died fifty years ago?
There are three main ideas of Keynes’s worth thinking about now. The first is that the future is unknowable, and therefore that economic storms are part of the normal worki…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141043609 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141043601 |
| Author: | Robert Skidelsky |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2010 |
| Weight: | 186g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Robert Skidelsky
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He is the author of The World After Communism (1995). He was made a life peer in 1991, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.
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