The Essential Keynes
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- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2015
Summary
The Essential Keynes: A Century of Economic Wisdom
The essential writings of the 20th century’s most influential economist, collected in one volume.
John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist, and one of the most influential thinkers, of the twentieth century. He overturned the orthodoxy that markets were optimally self-regulating, and instead argued for state intervention to ensure full employment and economic stability. This new selection is the first comprehen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846148132 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846148138 |
| Author: | John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 405g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 25mm |
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“The essential Keynes cannot be sketched in a chart or mechanized, and we are the worse for it. But Robert Skidelsky has done us a service by putting it in a handy book.” – The Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is widely considered to have been the most influential economist of the 20th century. His key books include The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919); A Treatise on Probability (1921); A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923); A Treatise on Money (1930); and his magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936).
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick. His three-volume biography of Keynes received numerous awards, including the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize.
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