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UNIVERSAL MAN
The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes
The first biography of John Maynard Keynes that looks at the man behind the economist who has fundamentally affected the theory and practice of modern economics and policies. THE UNIVERSAL MAN highlights how Keynes’ ardent curiosity, knowledge and imagination directed at every aspect of humanity fashioned the sort of economist he became.
THE UNIVERSAL MAN: THE SEVEN LIVES OF JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES is a fun, fascinating and exhaustive account of Keynes’ life. It shows how the same fundamental values, skills, and personal qualities were at work through the many different incarnations of his genius:
>the Boy Proidgal: A lanky man in his twenties in Cambridge, among a secretive discussion group, laying the groundwork for a universal way of living the good life, while socialising amongst the glamorous Bloomsbury set. A man of thirty, perched in the precarious side-car on 3 August 1914, on his way to single-handedly avert financial panic and monetary disarray in the first week of the war.
> the Lover and Connoisseur: A promiscuous homosexual, pioneering conservationist, opera-lover.
>The Public Man: A man in his fifties publishing in 1936 the most important economics book of the 20th century.
> The dauntless man in his sixties, with weak heart, fighting daily, at interminable conferences in Washington DC, to save war-wrecked Britain from being driven into bankruptcy by the Americans, knowing that he is sacrificing his life in the effort, until one day he collapses.
Richard Davenport-Hines creates a colourful portrait of a man Leonard Woolf described as ‘a don, a civil servant, a speculator, a businessman, a journalist, a writer, a farmer, a picture-dealer, a statesman, a theatrical manager, a book collector, and half a dozen other things’. Woolf did not use the word ‘economist’ to characterise Keynes: nor does the word occur in this book.
>the Boy Proidgal: A lanky man in his twenties in Cambridge, among a secretive discussion group, laying the groundwork for a universal way of living the good life, while socialising amongst the glamorous Bloomsbury set. A man of thirty, perched in the precarious side-car on 3 August 1914, on his way to single-handedly avert financial panic and monetary disarray in the first week of the war.
> the Lover and Connoisseur: A promiscuous homosexual, pioneering conservationist, opera-lover.
>The Public Man: A man in his fifties publishing in 1936 the most important economics book of the 20th century.
> The dauntless man in his sixties, with weak heart, fighting daily, at interminable conferences in Washington DC, to save war-wrecked Britain from being driven into bankruptcy by the Americans, knowing that he is sacrificing his life in the effort, until one day he collapses.
Richard Davenport-Hines creates a colourful portrait of a man Leonard Woolf described as ‘a don, a civil servant, a speculator, a businessman, a journalist, a writer, a farmer, a picture-dealer, a statesman, a theatrical manager, a book collector, and half a dozen other things’. Woolf did not use the word ‘economist’ to characterise Keynes: nor does the word occur in this book.
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Published 2015-03-01 by HarperCollins |
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Published 2015-03-01 by HarperCollins |