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The ideas of John Maynard Keynes have never been more timely. No one has bettered Keynes's description of the psychology of investors during a financial crisis: ‘The practice of calmness and immobility, of certainty and security, suddenly breaks down. New fears and hopes will, without warning, take charge of human conduct… the market will be subject to waves of optimistic and pessimistic sentiment.' 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…

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17 editions · 2 languages
  • Ebook · English · 2010
    PublicAffairs · 228 pages · 9781586488970
  • Ebook · English · 2009
    PublicAffairs · 9781586488338
  • Paperback · English · 2001
    John Maynard Keynes
    Papermac · 603 pages · 9780333779712
  • Hardcover · English · 2001
    John Maynard Keynes
    Viking Adult · 580 pages · 9780670030224
  • Paperback · English · 1994
    John Maynard Keynes
    Trans-Atlantic Publications · 731 pages · 9780333584996
  • Paperback · English · 1992
    John Maynard Keynes
    Papermac · 475 pages · 9780333573792
Keynesian economicsBusinessNonfictionEconomistsBiographyKeynes, john maynard, 1883-1946Economists, biographyNew York Times reviewed