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,
“... or is there an irony in Skidelsky’s subtitle? Though Skidelsky makes no secret of his deep admiration for Keynes, he retains his critical detachment and places several question-marks over the ideas and assumptions of his hero. Keynes, he writes, was ‘spectacularly wrong’ in his belief that economies would simply stagnate under ... ”
