On Skidelsky’s Keynes (2005)

Sean Turnell and Geoffrey Harcourt

Chapter 2 in On Skidelsky’s Keynes and Other Essays, 2012, pp 13-55 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract With the publication of the third volume of his life of John Maynard Keynes, Robert Skidelsky has brought to fruition probably the greatest biography of the twentieth century, certainly the greatest biography of an economist. We agree with Bradford De Long’s judgment: ‘as a whole, [it] is the finest biography of an economist that I have ever read, or that I expect ever to read’ (De Long, 2002, 155). Skidelsky’s fundamental aim in the three volumes is to reclaim Keynes for history and this he has done. In this review of the three volumes, Skidelsky (1983, 1992, 2000), though, we concentrate on Keynes, the economist, in particular, on the nature and extent of his contributions to economic theory and practice, how he did economics and what we may learn from this.

Keywords: General Theory; Monetary Policy; Price Level; Liberal Party; Quantity Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230348646_2

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