The Age of Keynes

Robert Lekachman

английский

Penguin Books

Первое и широчайшее исследование человека, теории и принципы которого управляли экономикой больше трех десятилетий.

Профессор Лекэчмен следует за Кейнсом через Кембридж, Версальскую Конференцию, Великую Депрессию (и ответ Кейнса на это в теории всеобщей занятости), Вторую Мировую Войну и его участие в МВФ (Международном Валютном Фонде). У автора есть редкая способность обсудить технические особенности экономики в ясной и интересной манере, которая делает их максимально ясными и понятными даже обычному человеку.

This is the biography of a mind and its influence -the first full-length study for over fifteen years of John Maynard Keynes, whose theories have governed economic practice for more than three decades.

Professor Lekachman follows Keynes through the forcing house of Cambridge, through the Versailles Conference, the Depression (and Keynes's answer to it in The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money), the Second World War and his part in the foundation of the International Monetary Fund. He has the rare ability to discuss the technicalities of economics in a lucid and entertaining manner which makes them immediately intelligible.

'A thoroughly useful introduction to the teachings of Keynes, to his influence, and to the background in which he lived and worked' - The Times

'A brief biography of Keynes, based on careful study, and a portrait of the man which is true to life. It deals not only with Keynes's career as a theoretic and practical economist, but also touches on his other varied interests' - Sir Roy Harrod

'It should be successful, by virtue of its civilized scholarly style and of the fact that Keynesianism has recently become a controversial issue in the United States' - Spectator