From the daily archives: Monday, October 30, 2006

John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed 1883-1920 by Robert Skidelsky

By Rufus Pollock On October 30, 2006 · Leave a Comment

This is Skidelsky’s first volume (1983) in his monumental trilogy charting the life and times of the economist-statesman John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). It is an excellent work, not overlong, willing to state judgements but always judicious in doing so, full of surrounding detail but never wandering far from its central theme and, perhaps most importantly, [...]

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