How Left was he?
Paul Addison, 7 January 1993
John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour 1920-1937
by Robert Skidelsky.
Macmillan, 731 pp., £20, November 1992,0 333 37138 0 Show More
by Robert Skidelsky.
Macmillan, 731 pp., £20, November 1992,
Maynard Keynes: An Economist’s Biography
by D.E. Moggridge.
Routledge, 941 pp., £35, April 1992,9780415051415 Show More
by D.E. Moggridge.
Routledge, 941 pp., £35, April 1992,
“... John Maynard Keynes is famous for his private life and associations with Bloomsbury and famous, too, as the economist who campaigned for public works between the wars, and revolutionised economics with his General Theory. A biographer of Keynes has to straddle two very different worlds, and it is one measure of Robert Skidelsky’s achievement that he writes with equal authority of both in this deeply researched and densely textured book ... ”