Bøker av John Maynard Keynes

A clear exposition of Keynes's ideas about the currencies of Europe and their adjustment to the post-war world.

Edited with an introduction by ROBERT SKIDELSKY'Many of the greatest economic evils of our time are the fruits of risk, uncertainty, and ignorance'John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist, and one of the most influential thinkers, of the twentieth century. He overturned the orthodoxy that markets were optimally self-regulating, and instead argued for state intervention to ensure full employment and economic stability. This new selection is the first comprehensive single-volume edition of Keynes's writings on economics, philosophy, social theory and policy, including several pieces never before published. Full of irony and wit, they offer a dazzling introduction to a figure whose ideas still have urgent relevance today.John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is widely considered to have been the most influential economist of the 20th century. His key books include The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919); A Treatise on Probability (1921); A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923); A Treatise on Money (1930); and his magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936).Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick. His three-volume biography of Keynes received numerous awards, including the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize.

Scholarly yet engaged and readable, Cox's introduction to the work - written a century after the book first hit the headlines - critically appraises Keynes' polemic contextualising and bringing to life the text for a new generation of scholars and students of IR, IPE, Politics and History.

John Maynard Keynes, then a rising young economist, participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George

This is John Maynard Keynes's prophetic analysis of the effects that the peace treaty would have on Germany and, even more fatefully, the world. This edition includes an introduction by David Felix, who explores Keynes's arguments and the historical context of the period during which he wrote.

This second volume contains essays which relate to developments in Keynes scholarship and theorizing since his death, and demonstrates the ongoing nature of the Keynesian tradition.

Here a wide range of Keynes scholars - including James Tobin and Paul Skidelsky - clarify difficult passages and revise "The General Theory" in light of Keynes' later work and ideas.