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OverviewThe ideas of John Maynard Keynes inspired the New Deal and helped rebuild world economies after World War II --and were later dismissed as depression economics. Then came the great meltdown of 2008. Market forces that the world relied on suddenly failed to self-correct--and Keynes's doctrine of corrective action in an imperfect world became more relevant than ever. Keynes was not a traditional economist: He was a polemicist, iconoclastic public intellectual, peer of the realm, and political operative, as well as an openly homosexual Bohemian who befriended Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. In Keynes, noted historian Peter Clarke provides a timely and masterful accounting of Keynes's life and work, bringing his genius and skepticism alive for an era fraught with economic difficulties that he surely would have relished solving. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Clarke (King's College London and University of Oxford UK) , P F ClarkePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.322kg ISBN: 9781608190232ISBN 10: 1608190234 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 27 October 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationPeter Clarke was formerly a professor of modern history and Master of Trinity Hall at Cambridge. His many books include The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire, The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924-1936, and the acclaimed final volume of the Penguin History of Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900-2000. He lives in Suffolk, England, and Pender Island, British Columbia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |