John Maynard Keynes: Hopes betrayed, 1883-1920

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Macmillan, 1983 - Biography & Autobiography - 447 pages
This second volume after "Maynard Keynes" takes up the story from 1921. World War I had destroyed the essential props of the international economic and political system. There would be no sustained recovery, but a run-up to world depression, totalitarianism and another world war.

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DYNASTIC ORIGINS
1
GROWING UP IN CAMBRIDGE
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ETON
74
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Robert Skidelsky, a professor of political economy at Warwick University, is also the author of Politicians and the Slump and Oswald Mosley.

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