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John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
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Maynard Keynes : The Economist As Savior 1920-1937 : A Biography by
Robert SkidelskyIt is rare that a
scholarly biography or a treatise on economics would attract
attention, but the first volume of Skidelsky's intended three-part
work on John Maynard Keynes, Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920
(1986), did just that. Skidelsky successfully portrayed Keynes the
person, not just Keynes the economist, including a frank
investigation of the impact of Keynes' homosexuality on his life
and work and a discussion of his relationships with other members
of London's noted Bloomsbury group. This second volume is more
devoted to complex, technical economic theory but also considers
Keynes' marriage to the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova and notes
his significant successes in the stock market. Skidelsky analyzes
Keynes' theories and policies dealing with the economic
consequences of World War I, those concerning Keynes' fight
against the return of the gold standard, and those relating to
Keynes' response to the Great Depression. Recommended for academic
and business collections. David Rouse, Booklist
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From The Knitting Circle
Educated at Eton and King's College Cambridge
where he blended effortlessly into the idealistic atmosphere of
the "higher sodomy" which attained its most rarefied
form in the secret society known as the Cambridge Apostles, to
which he was almost immediately elected. In the Apostles he met
his lifelong friends Lytton
Strachey and Leonard Woolf, and hence became part of the Bloomsbury
Group. Believing himself ugly, he was shy in the presence of
the undergraduates he admired. However, in 1908 he began a serious
affair with the painter Duncan
Grant of whom he later said he was the only person in whom he
found a truly satisfying combination of beauty and intelligence...
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From Your Family,
Friends and Neighbors, Inc.
John Maynard Keynes grew up in Victorian
England, the son of middle-class parents who cultivated in him a
sense of public duty and a passion for intellectual stimulation.
Known as the father of modern economics, Keynes was educated at
Cambridge University where he formed a life-long friendship with
Bloomsbury writer Lytton Strachey. Keynes gained international
fame for his economic theories, evidences in his 1919 best selling
work, The Economic Consequences of the Peace which argued
for Europe's economic unity. Keynes's theories were the first to
encourage the government's involvment in solving the problems of
unemployment and were used as the bases of President Roosevelt's
New Deal programs, designed in response to the Great Depression.
Along with a series of casual relationships with
men, Keynes had two significant love affairs during his life. The
first was with post-impressionist painter Duncan Grant, lasting
seven years. The second, when his bisexuality emerged, was with
Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokov whom he married in 1925 and stayed
with until his death over twenty years later.
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