Essays in Biography

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Most of the essays in this book were first collected and published in 1933, when Keynes had reached a turning point in a highly successful career as an academic economist, as an official economic advisor, opponent of the reparation 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, Keynes  Read more...

Author(s): Keynes, John Maynard
Series: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Royal Economic Society
Year: 2012

Language: English
Commentary: Uploaded 12/01/2020
Pages: 460
Tags: Keynes, John Maynard, -- 1883-1946 -- Friends and associates;Keynes, John Maynard, -- 1883-1946;Statesmen -- Biography;Economists -- Biography;Economists;Friendship;Statesmen

PART I: SKETCHES OF POLITICIANS --
The Council of Four, Paris 1919 --
Lloyd George: A Fragment --
A Meeting of the Council of Three --
Andrew Bonar Law --
Herbert Asquith --
Edwin Montagou --
Arthur Balfour --
Winston Churchill --
Reginald McKenna --
The Great Villiers Connection --
Trotsky on England --
PART II: LIVES OF ECONOMISTS --
Thomas Robert Malthus --
William Stanley Jevons --
Alfred Marshall --
Mary Paley Marshall --
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth --
Herbert Somerton Foxwell --
Sir Henry Cunynghame --
Henry Higgs --
Alfred Hoare --
PART III: BREIF SKETCHES --
Wilhelm Lexis --
Frederic Hillersdon Keeling --
A.A. Tschuprow --
Benjamin Strong --
C.P. Sanger --
Walter Case --
George Broomhall --
Frederick Phillips --
PART IV: HIS FRIENDS IN KING'S --
Frank Ramsey --
A.F.R. Wollaston --
W.E. Johnson --
William Herrick Macaulay --
Dilwyn Knox --
Julian Bell --
PART V: TWO SCIENTISTS --
Newton, the Man --
Bernard Shaw and Isaac Newton --
Einstein --
PART VI: TWO MEMOIRS --
Melchior: A Defeated Enemy --
My Early Beliefs.