John Maynard Keynes: A Biography, Volume 2This 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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... Lytton Strachey , it is said , was asked in the war why he was not fighting for civilisation . ' Madam , ' he replied , ' I am the civilisation for which they are fighting . ' Lytton's joke was Maynard's belief ; his life was spent ...
... Lytton Strachey , it is said , was asked in the war why he was not fighting for civilisation . ' Madam , ' he replied , ' I am the civilisation for which they are fighting . ' Lytton's joke was Maynard's belief ; his life was spent ...
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... Strachey a contract with his own publisher , Harcourt , Brace & Co. , which , according to Strachey's biographer , ' over the years deprived Strachey and his literary executor of many thousands of pounds'.27 + Lytton became notably less ...
... Strachey a contract with his own publisher , Harcourt , Brace & Co. , which , according to Strachey's biographer , ' over the years deprived Strachey and his literary executor of many thousands of pounds'.27 + Lytton became notably less ...
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... Lytton Strachey read them his Queen Victoria , and Mary Hutchinson stopped Clive Bell from working at all . Bunny Garnett ' turned up in a motor ' , followed by Peter Lucas , ' perfectly charming as ever ' and having a calming effect on ...
... Lytton Strachey read them his Queen Victoria , and Mary Hutchinson stopped Clive Bell from working at all . Bunny Garnett ' turned up in a motor ' , followed by Peter Lucas , ' perfectly charming as ever ' and having a calming effect on ...
Contents
What Is One to Do with Ones Brains? xxxi | 1 |
THE TRANSITION TO PEACE | 31 |
KEYNESS PHILOSOPHY OF PRACTICE | 56 |
Copyright | |
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