Screen LibraryKeynes：the rise, fall, and return of the 20th century's most influential economist
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Bloomsbury Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st U.S. ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | 211 p.: ill. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781608190232 (alk. paper) 1608190234 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K835 |
| CLC: | K835.615.31 |
| Call Number: | K835.615.31/K446C-1 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : A roller-coaster reputation -- 'A religion and no morals' : John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1924 -- 'On the extreme left of celestial space' : John Maynard Keynes, 1924-1946 -- 'In the long run we are all dead' : rethinking economic policy -- 'Animal spirits' : rethinking economic theory -- Epilogue : British and American Keynesianism. The 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, an iconoclastic public intellectual, a peer of the realm, and a political operative, as well as an openly homosexual bohemian who befriended Virginia Woolf and E. M. Fo |