Keynes by Robert Skidelsky - ISBN: 9780141043609
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Unknowable futures, economic storms, and the timeless wisdom of Keynes.

Keynes

The Return of the Master

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    256 pages

  • Release Date

    29 October 2010

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Summary

In the current financial crisis, Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard, dusted down, consulted, cited, invoked, and appealed to regarding why events have unfolded as they have and how a rescue operation can be effected. Why have we gone back so emphatically to the ideas of an economist who died fifty years ago?

There are three main ideas of Keynes’s worth thinking about now. The first is that the future is unknowable, and therefore that economic storms are part of the normal worki…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141043609
ISBN-10:0141043601
Author:Robert Skidelsky
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:29 October 2010
Weight:186g
Dimensions:199mm x 129mm x 16mm
About The Author

Robert Skidelsky

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He is the author of The World After Communism (1995). He was made a life peer in 1991, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.

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