Keynes: the return of the master
Keynes's preeminent biographer, Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, brilliantly synthesizes from Keynes's career and life the aspects of his thinking that apply most directly to the world we currently live in. In so doing, Skidelsky shows that Keynes's mixture of pragmatism and realism - which distinguished his thinking from the neo-classical or Chicago school of economics that has been the dominant influence since the Thatcher-Reagan era and …
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- Full title :Keynes : the return of the master / Robert Skidelsky.
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Keynes's preeminent biographer, Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, brilliantly synthesizes from Keynes's career and life the aspects of his thinking that apply most directly to the world we currently live in. In so doing, Skidelsky shows that Keynes's mixture of pragmatism and realism - which distinguished his thinking from the neo-classical or Chicago school of economics that has been the dominant influence since the Thatcher-Reagan era and which made possible the raw market capitalism that created the current global financial crisis - is more pertinent and applicable than ever. Crucially Keynes offers nervous capitalists - and Keynes never wavered in his belief in the capitalist system - a positive answer to the question we now face: When unbridled capitalism falters, is there an alternative?
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- Publication Date:2009.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):PublicAffairs
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
Notes
In copertina: Why, sixty years after his death, John Maynard Keynes is the most important economic thinker for America.
The Physical Object
- Description:XVIII, 221 Seiten : : figur
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781586488277, 1586488279
- oclc:ocn635699991
- LC Classification:HB99.7
- Dewey Decimal:330.15/6
Table of Contents
What went wrong? -- The present state of economics -- The lives of Keynes -- Keynes's economics -- The Keynesian revolution : success or failure? -- Keynes and the ethics of capitalism -- Keynes's politics -- Keynes for today.
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