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The price of peace money, democracy, and the life of John Maynard Keynes

"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. Ge...

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Main Author: Carter, Zachary D. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Keynes, John Maynard, > 1883-1946.
Economists > Great Britain > Biography.
Economics > History > 20th century.
Bloomsbury group.
Biographies.
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Table of 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.

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