The Life of John Maynard Keynes

The Life of John Maynard Keynes traces the life and career of the famous English economist and evaluates his contribution to modern economic policy making.

Sir Roy Harrod became part of Keynes' circle in the 1930s and was encouraged by him to develop his work on the theory of growth which he first subtantially stated in "The Trade Cycle," In 1945 he succeeded Keynes as Editor of the" Economic Journal "and retained the Editorship until his retirement in 1966. In 1959 he was knighted for his academic and public service.
Peter Oppenheimer, who provides the Introduction to this collection, is a distinguished Oxford economist.

"[The Life of John Maynard Keynes] fulfills expectation. It is reliable, instructive, vivid, sensitive and a pleasure to read. It is a due memorial to a man whom Mr. Harrod, without overstatement, describes as 'one of the greatest Englishmen of his age.'. . .The ordinary citizen, bewildered by economics, will read this book with exhilaration--even with passionate exhilaration--as an account of an astounding personality. . . .His, certainly, was the most compelling personality that I have ever encountered." --Harold Nicolson, The Observer

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