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The Price of Peace
- Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas
“A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes.”—The Wall Street Journal
WINNER: The Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
FINALIST: The National Book Critics Circle Award • The Sabew Best in Business Book Award
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times • The Economist • Bloomberg • Mother Jones
At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that would change the course of history. Swept away from his placid home at Cambridge University by the currents of the conflict, Keynes found himself thrust into the halls of European treasuries to arrange emergency loans and packed off to America to negotiate the terms of economic combat. The terror and anxiety unleashed by the war would transform him from a comfortable obscurity into the most influential and controversial intellectual of his day—a man whose ideas still retain the power to shock in our own time.
Keynes was not only an economist but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the twentieth century, one who devoted his life to the belief that art and ideas could conquer war and deprivation. As a moral philosopher, political theorist, and statesman, Keynes led an extraordinary life that took him from intimate turn-of-the-century parties in London’s riotous Bloomsbury art scene to the fevered negotiations in Paris that shaped the Treaty of Versailles, from stock market crashes on two continents to diplomatic breakthroughs in the mountains of New Hampshire to wartime ballet openings at London’s extravagant Covent Garden.
Along the way, Keynes reinvented Enlightenment liberalism to meet the harrowing crises of the twentieth century. In the United States, his ideas became the foundation of a burgeoning economics profession, but they also became a flash point in the broader political struggle of the Cold War, as Keynesian acolytes faced off against conservatives in an intellectual battle for the future of the country—and the world. Though many Keynesian ideas survived the struggle, much of the project to which he devoted his life was lost.
In this riveting biography, veteran journalist Zachary D. Carter unearths the lost legacy of one of history’s most fascinating minds. The Price of Peace revives a forgotten set of ideas about democracy, money, and the good life with transformative implications for today’s debates over inequality and the power politics that shape the global order.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
“Zachary D. Carter has given us an important, resonant, and memorable portrait of one of the chief architects of the world we’ve known, and know still. As Richard Nixon observed, we’re all Keynesians now—even if we don’t realize it. Carter’s powerful book will surely fix that.”—Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hope of Glory
“A brilliantly wrought, beautifully written life of one of the most captivating intellects of the twentieth century.”—Liaquat Ahamed, author of Lords of Finance
“The Price of Peace is a towering achievement. Carter blends a nuanced and sophisticated financial history of the twentieth century with the intimate personal drama and political upheaval of an epic novel. . . . A masterful biography of a unique and complex social thinker.”—Stephanie Kelton, author of The Deficit Myth
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Slouching Towards Utopia
- An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
- De: J. Bradford DeLong
- Narrado por: Allan Aquino
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
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Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When 1870-2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression, uncertainty, and inequality; and broad rejection of the status quo.
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A clear but sometimes one-sided economic history
- De Anon en 11-22-22
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
- De: John Maynard Keynes
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was one of the most important documents to come out of World War I – specifically the period of the Armistice and the subsequent settlement negotiations. And, a century on, it remains of particular relevance to our times – an uncompromising and forthright analysis of how international diplomacy can be suffused by personalities, prejudices, personal ambition and outright, uncontrolled feelings of revenge.
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Work of Genius
- De philip en 12-24-20
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American Philosophy
- A Love Story
- De: John Kaag
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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In American Philosophy, John Kaag - a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career - stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. The library includes notes from Whitman, inscriptions from Frost, and first editions of Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant. As he begins to catalog and preserve these priceless books, Kaag rediscovers the very tenets of American philosophy.
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Awesome Book! But..
- De Kye Sonne en 04-02-17
De: John Kaag
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November 1918
- The German Revolution
- De: Robert Gerwarth
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity that paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come. Robert Gerwarth argues here that to view the German Revolution in this way is a serious misjudgment. Not only did it bring down the authoritarian monarchy of the Hohenzollern, it also brought into being the first ever German democracy in an amazingly bloodless way.
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Fresh Historical Perspective
- De Greg Fulkerson en 11-04-20
De: Robert Gerwarth
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
- De: John Maynard Keynes
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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First published in 1936, Keynes’ ideas had evolved during the difficulties following World War 1 in Europe, and the US crash and the Depression of the 1920s-'30s and the misery of mass unemployment. He deplored the situation where a few individuals or companies stored massive wealth while vast numbers experienced poverty and insecurity (his alarm bells ring today!) and sought to promote initiatives where governments could intervene with social projects to keep money fluctuating.
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- De Brendan Clune en 02-27-19
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The Battle of Bretton Woods
- John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
- De: Benn Steil
- Narrado por: Philip Rose
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of 44 nations gathered in July 1944, in the midst of the century's second great war, has become shorthand for enlightened globalization.
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Is this a mystery, a history or an economics book?
- De Neil en 04-23-13
De: Benn Steil
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Slouching Towards Utopia
- An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
- De: J. Bradford DeLong
- Narrado por: Allan Aquino
- Duración: 20 h y 13 m
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Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the economy again and again. Our ancestors would have presumed we would have used such powers to build utopia. But it was not so. When 1870-2010 ended, the world instead saw global warming; economic depression, uncertainty, and inequality; and broad rejection of the status quo.
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A clear but sometimes one-sided economic history
- De Anon en 11-22-22
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace
- De: John Maynard Keynes
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 8 h y 17 m
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The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was one of the most important documents to come out of World War I – specifically the period of the Armistice and the subsequent settlement negotiations. And, a century on, it remains of particular relevance to our times – an uncompromising and forthright analysis of how international diplomacy can be suffused by personalities, prejudices, personal ambition and outright, uncontrolled feelings of revenge.
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Work of Genius
- De philip en 12-24-20
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American Philosophy
- A Love Story
- De: John Kaag
- Narrado por: Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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In American Philosophy, John Kaag - a disillusioned philosopher at sea in his marriage and career - stumbles upon a treasure trove of rare books on an old estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that once belonged to the Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. The library includes notes from Whitman, inscriptions from Frost, and first editions of Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant. As he begins to catalog and preserve these priceless books, Kaag rediscovers the very tenets of American philosophy.
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Awesome Book! But..
- De Kye Sonne en 04-02-17
De: John Kaag
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November 1918
- The German Revolution
- De: Robert Gerwarth
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 9 h y 50 m
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The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity that paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come. Robert Gerwarth argues here that to view the German Revolution in this way is a serious misjudgment. Not only did it bring down the authoritarian monarchy of the Hohenzollern, it also brought into being the first ever German democracy in an amazingly bloodless way.
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Fresh Historical Perspective
- De Greg Fulkerson en 11-04-20
De: Robert Gerwarth
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Keynes Hayek
- The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
- De: Nicholas Wapshott
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore the balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Friedrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous.
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An unbiased evaluation of both the major economist
- De Anand en 03-17-12
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The Big Three in Economics
- Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
- De: Mark Skousen
- Narrado por: Jeff Riggenbach
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history: Adam Smith, representing laissez faire; Karl Marx, reflecting the radical socialist model; and John Maynard Keynes, symbolizing big government and the welfare state. History comes alive in this fascinating story of opposing views that continue to play a fundamental role in today's politics and economics.
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- De Jan en 05-25-07
De: Mark Skousen
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The Affluent Society
- De: John Kenneth Galbraith
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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Galbraith's classic on the "economics of abundance" is, in the words of the New York Times, "a compelling challenge to conventional thought". With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Galbraith cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn't mean) in today's world and lays bare the hazards of individual and societal complacence about economic inequity.
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Good 20+ years after the 40th anniversary edition
- De Munair en 06-18-22
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Keynes
- The Return of the Master
- De: Robert Skidelsky
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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Keynes's preeminent biographer, Robert Skidelsky, brilliantly synthesizes from Keynes' career and life the aspects of his thinking that apply most directly to the world we currently live in. In so doing, Skidelsky shows that Keynes's mixture of pragmatism and realism, which distinguished his thinking from the neo-classical or Chicago school of economics that has been the dominant influence since the Thatcher-Reagan era and which made possible the raw market capitalism that created the current global financial crisis, is more pertinent and applicable than ever.
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Suprisingly Informative
- De michael en 02-21-12
De: Robert Skidelsky
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Economic Consequences of the Peace
- De: John Maynard Keynes
- Narrado por: Robert Bethune
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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John Maynard Keynes died in 1946, but his name is still prominent in economics and politics worldwide. Although his contributions to economic theory established and maintain his fame, he also - particularly at the time in his life when he wrote the present book, Economic Consequences of the Peace - showed a flair for practical political work. At the end of World War I he was appointed as the British Treasury's representative to the Versailles Peace Conference. His experiences at the Conference formed the basis of this book.
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Audio Books should be the completion of mediums
- De Evan A. Dunn en 03-17-18
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The Theory of Money and Credit
- De: Ludwig von Mises
- Narrado por: Jim Vann
- Duración: 18 h y 59 m
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Mises wrote this book for the ages, and it remains the most spirited, thorough, and scientifically rigorous treatise on money ever to appear. This classic treatise was the first really great integration of microeconomics and macroeconomics, and it remains the definitive book on the foundations of monetary theory. As Rothbard points out in his introduction to "the best book on money ever written," economists have yet to absorb all its lessons.
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Interesting read
- De Todd Woollen en 07-20-19
De: Ludwig von Mises
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Three Days at Camp David
- How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy
- De: Jeffrey E. Garten
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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The former dean of the Yale School of Management and undersecretary of commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard - breaking the link between gold and the dollar - transforming the entire global monetary system.
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Sticks to its knitting, thoroughly and well
- De Philo en 07-18-21
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The Whiteness of Wealth
- How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans - and How We Can Fix It
- De: Dorothy A. Brown
- Narrado por: Karen Murray
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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Dorothy A. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race. As a young black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she’d seen how racism limited the lives of her family and neighbors. Her law school classes offered a refreshing contrast: Tax law was about numbers, and the only color that mattered was green. But when Brown sat down to prepare tax returns for her parents, she found something strange: James and Dottie Brown, a plumber and a nurse, seemed to be paying an unusually high percentage of their income in taxes. When Brown became a law professor, she set out to understand why.
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Thought provoking and very accessible
- De Simone en 05-16-21
De: Dorothy A. Brown
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Shutdown
- How Covid Shook the World's Economy
- De: Adam Tooze
- Narrado por: Simon Vance, Adam Tooze
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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The shocks of 2020 have been great and small, disrupting the world economy, international relations, and the daily lives of virtually everyone on the planet. Never before has the entire world economy contracted by 20 percent in a matter of weeks nor in the historic record of modern capitalism has there been a moment in which 95 percent of the world's economies were suffering all at the same time. Across the world, hundreds of millions have lost their jobs. And over it all looms the specter of pandemic, and death.
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Case study in why historians shouldn't play pundit
- De Carter37 en 09-28-21
De: Adam Tooze
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Heirs of the Founders
- The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants
- De: H. W. Brands
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery.
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Excellent
- De Jean en 12-04-18
De: H. W. Brands
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
- De: Jonathan Sperber
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 22 h y 49 m
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Returning Marx to the Victorian confines of the 19th century, Jonathan Sperber, one of the United States' leading European historians, challenges many of our misconceptions of this political firebrand turned London journalist. In this deeply humanizing portrait, Marx no longer is the Olympian soothsayer, divining the dialectical imperatives of human history, but a scholar-activist whose revolutionary Weltanschauung was closer to Robespierre's than to those of 20th-century Marxists.
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Informative intellectual biography, poor reading
- De anonymous en 10-25-13
De: Jonathan Sperber
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The Forgotten Man
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 14 h y 34 m
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It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression. Only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand how the nation endured. In The Forgotten Man, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression. Rejecting the old emphasis on the New Deal, she turns to the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how they helped establish the steadfast character we developed as a nation.
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a story of forgotten times
- De Debb Robinson en 10-11-07
De: Amity Shlaes
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- Bruce D. Black
- 09-29-20
Great history wrapped around biography
Carter does a masterful job of bringing the larger than life character of John Maynard Keyes to the page. This is cultural, intellectual and economic history at its best. Cast aside any view of economics as the dismal science and meet a Renaissance man of the 20th century.
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- D. Keith
- 07-31-20
Highly Relevant For A Season of Political and Economic Catastrophe
As a retired history teacher and a lifelong student of economic history, I thought I already knew a fair amount about John Maynard Keynes, but this superb biography greatly deepened my understanding of him as a person, a philosopher and, of course an economic thinker. With a wonderful performance by Robert Petkoff, this book for me was the audio version of a “page-turner.” As I write this in late July of 2020, Congress appears deadlocked over the roll that government spending can and should play to avert an economic collapse and it feels like we are in the midst of a tectonic historical shift. This history from 1914 through 1946 couldn’t be more relevant. The last section of the book explores what happened with Keynesianism, mostly in the US, after he died which moves it past being a biography into Intellectual/political history.
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- Peter Hildebrandt
- 04-24-22
Thorough and always interesting
There’s a lot here to digest and let soak in. But I am glad I stuck with this book. I feel I now know who Keynes was and why his life’s work is as important today as it ever was. I love the last words of the book, which I think was a direct quote from Keynes, something to the effect that yes, “in the end we are all dead. But looking ahead to the future, anything is still possible.” This gave me hope in the face of today’s threats to democracy and the fate of life on this planet.
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- CMcA
- 12-28-22
Must hear
So good I listen to it twice. This is why subscription to Audible is worthwhile.
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- sbrennan97
- 11-02-20
Phenomenal
One of the better boos that inhale listened to. Genuinely entertaining while also presenting Keynes’s life in an informative manner.
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- marwalk
- 12-16-20
Provides practical meaning for us today
In this book, Zachary D. Carter decodes the academic, political, and ideological conflicts that John Maynard Keynes lived through, contributed to, and participated in—and provides practical meaning for us today over 70 years after the end of Keynes' life. The author describes in documented detail how the straightforward logic of Keynes was never fully implemented (hint: a remarkably large amount of money, influence, and corruption conspired to keep neoliberal fallacies embedded in mainstream assumptions). Carter presents Keynesianism as focused on helping people to have better lives through the practical actions of governments and businesses—in this, practicality overrules ideology.
Also covered are the intimate details of Keynes' private life. Although he eventually married a woman, Keynes was gay (as openly as was practical in early 20th Century UK). Al tough he was concerned about the political oppression he saw in the Soviet Union when he visited there with his Russian wife, Keynes also had several Marxist friends. The Marxist connection to Keynes was leveraged by right wing groups in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s to scare away support of Keynesianism for reasons that had very little to do with Keynes himself or his theories—a typical line of propaganda that continues to be repeated in the US and elsewhere today.
In the period between the two world wars of the 20th Century, Keynes tried to convince world leaders to apply reason in how they treated defeated Germany. We know from history that they weren't reasonable with Germany, and the world paid a horrible price as a result. There are parallels to this today, as the same economic influences that led to fascism in the 1930s are very much at play in our own time. I'm convinced that taking Keynes seriously is an essential tool in preventing future disaster for ourselves.
In the second half of the book, Carter covers the approaches to Keynesianism in the US and elsewhere after Keynes' death. Both Democratic and Republican administrations are effectively skewered in this book for falling prey to neoliberalism, often due to well financed and coordinated influences. The context presents the policies actually implemented in contrast to what would have been had they adopted policies based on Keynes. The details presented provide a revealing sense of the personal interactions involved, and how they worked against the public interest.
Although Carter doesn't predict a return to Keynesianism in the near future, the book provides a context for more effective advocacy of people-oriented economic programs. There is much material to draw upon for encouraging governments at all levels to engage in public works and infrastructure projects. By illustrating where the resistance comes from and how it has been executed, Carter provides material from which one may better craft a persuasive campaign for Keynesian solutions. That by itself makes this book worth the read.
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- Terry623
- 04-05-22
Immersive and addictive
A fantastic history of modern economic history wrapped up in an emotionally affecting biography. Resonant scholarship and storytelling
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- Patrick M.
- 04-20-23
good
Here are 15 words to share the stars to say this recording was quite good.
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- Brian Ginnane
- 08-27-20
Great read for our times
In light of all that is uncertain I thought it would be useful to brush up on the history of economics during the last world pandemic. This book provided that as well as a great profile that crosses the political spectrum to figure out economic policy in all matters of worldly concern.
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- Luddite Redux
- 02-06-23
Fusing Keynes to our modern world
After Skidelsky’s magnificent biography what else could a writer of Keynes’s life have to say? Yet Carter pulls it off by showing us how Keynesianism has fared since the great man’s death and it is a story of triumph followed by cynicism and betrayal.
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