Essays in Biography - Couverture souple

Keynes, John Maynard; Keynes, Sir Geoffrey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1494093685 ISBN 13 : 9781494093686

Editeur : Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013

Synopsis

This is a new release of the original 1951 edition.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Most of the essays in this book were first collected and published in 1933, when Keynes had reached a turning point in what had by then become a highly successful career as an academic economist, as an official economic advisor, opponent of the reparations imposed on Germany, and critic of the orthodox economic policies of British governments. Before devoting himself fully to the final stages of his journey towards the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes put together these examples of one of his favourite literary genres, the psychological portrait and biographical sketch. With the additions made in 1951 and 1972, the book now contains almost all of Keynes's biographical writings: his savage portraits of the architects of the treaty of Versailles and sketches of other politicians, including Asquith, Balfour, Bonar Law, and Churchill; some classic accounts of the lives of economists, including Malthus, Jevons, Marshall, Edgeworth, and Foxwell; a pair of autobiographical memoirs; a short study of Newton; and many acute and affectionate character sketches of friends. Keynes shows himself here as a literary artist whose work does not suffer by comparison with that of his two friends within the Bloomsbury Group, Virgina Woolf and Lytton Strachey.

Biographie de l'auteur

DONALD WINCH is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex; he was educated at the London School of Economics and Princeton University and has written extensively on the history of economics and the intellectual history of political economy from Adam Smith to Keynes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1494093685
• ISBN 13: 9781494093686
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible