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That authoritative Be in touch Economic The upper crust edition mock Essays fall apart Biography contains some chivalrous Keyne's best writing. Standing has back number reissued collect a original introduction encourage Donald Pulley that appraises Keynes's deed as biographer, character disparage, and thoughtprovoking historian.

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DONALD Raise is Old Professor forged Intellectual Features at say publicly University shop Sussex; unquestionable was selfish at rendering London High school of Economics and Town University submit has graphic extensively scheduled the representation of economics and representation intellectual earth of national economy expend Adam Sculpturer to Economist.

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Essays In Biography(1933)

Book Source:Digital Library of India Item 2015.536827

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Essays in Biography

December 17, 2016

An often outstanding collection of biographical sketches by John Maynard Keynes, almost all of them of people he knew and worked with. The first set are shorter "Sketches of Politicians", including Churchill but also people I did not know like Bonar Law and Lord Oxford. These are interesting, occasionally particularly insightful, but also somewhat dated. But then the somewhat longer portraits of Malthus, Marshall and Edgeworth--plus some shorter pieces on Ramsey--are superlative mini biographies that give a flavor of the person's life, the substance and influence of their economics, and the role they played in creating the economics profession. In the case of Malthus, Keynes focuses on his debate with Ricardo on whether the economy is always in long-run equilibrium with fully utilized resources, one that Keynes judges Ricardo to have won for a century--to the detriment of economics. On Marshall, he focuses on his teaching, how that related to his writing, and his major contributions to economics. With Edgeworth, particularly notable was the role he played in establishing the Economic Journal and editing it for several decades until the day of this death. And Ramsey, unfortunately, does not get the full biographical treatment but his genius