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Keynes
Peter Clarke
其他書名
The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
, 2009-11-04
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Business & Economics / Economics / Theory
Business & Economics / Economic History
ISBN
1608191710
9781608191710
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pNvGMSdEyRkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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, iconoclastic public intellectual, peer of the realm, and political operative, as well as an openly homosexual Bohemian who befriended Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. In
Keynes
, noted historian Peter Clarke provides a timely and masterful accounting of Keynes's life and work, bringing his genius and skepticism alive for an era fraught with economic difficulties that he surely would have relished solving.