Download PDF/Epub The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Writen By Zachary D. Carter
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
A page-turning biography of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the big ideas, inspired by his friendships with the Bloomsbury Group, that outlived him.In the spring of 1934, Virginia Woolf sketched an affectionate "biographical fantasy" of her great friend John Maynard Keynes. Writing two years before the publication of his magnum opus, The General Theory, Woolf nevertheless found herself unable to condense her friend's already-extraordinary life into anything less than twenty-five themes, which she jotted down at the opening of her portrait: "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."Keynes was not only an economist, as he is remembered today, but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the twentieth century, a man who devoted his life to the belief that art and ideas
Product details: The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Author : Zachary D. Carter
Pages : pages
Publisher : Random House Audio
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : B082QSLGG5
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