RDUM00-21 Richard Davenport-Hines - Universal Man.nfo
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Title: Universal Man: The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
Author: Richard Davenport-Hines
Read By: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Copyright: 2015
Audiobook Copyright: 2015
Genre: Nonfiction - History - Biography - Economy
Publisher: Recorded Books
Abridged: No
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Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
In Universal Man noted biographer and historian Richard Davenport-Hines
revives our understanding of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), the 20th
century's most charismatic and revolutionary economist.
Keynes helped FDR launch the New Deal, saved Britain from financial
crisis twice over the course of two world wars, and instructed Western
nations on how to protect themselves from revolutionary unrest, economic
instability, high unemployment, and social dissolution. Isaiah Berlin
called Keynes "the cleverest man I ever knew" - both "superior and intellectually
awe-inspiring". Eric Hobsbawm, the 20th century's preeminent historian,
considered him as influential as Lenin, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill,
Gandhi, and Mao. Keynes was nothing less than the Adam Smith of his
time: his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published
in 1936, became the most important economics book of the 20th century,
as important as Smith's Wealth of Nations in inaugurating an economic
era. Keynes' brilliant ideas made possible 35 years of prosperity after
the Second World War, the most sustained period of rapid expansion in
history. And now, and in the wake of the 2008 global economic collapse,
he is once again shaping our world.
Every day we are likely to hear about Keynesian economics or the Keynesian
Revolution, terms that testify to his continuing influence on both economic
theory and government policies. Indeed, with the thorough discrediting
of his opponents - Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan,
and other supporters of the notion that capitalism is self-regulating
and needs no government intervention - nations across the world are
turning to Keynes's signature innovations: above all that governments
must involve themselves in their economies to stave off financial collapse.
Previous biographies have explored Keynes' economic thought at great
length and often in the jargon of the discipline.
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