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    Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes
    Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes
    Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes
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    Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes

    Written by Richard Davenport-Hines

    Narrated by Sean Barrett

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    About this audiobook

    From the bestselling and award-winning author of ‘An English Affair’, a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century.

    John Maynard Keynes saved Britain from financial crisis twice over the course of two World Wars, and instructed Western industrialised states on how to protect themselves from revolutionary unrest, economic instability, high unemployment and social dissolution. In the wake of the recent global financial crisis, economists worldwide have once again turned to his ideas to confront their problems.

    In this entertaining and edifying new biography, Richard Davenport-Hines introduces the man behind the economics; a connoisseur, intellectual, economist, administrator and statesman who was equally at ease socialising with the Bloomsbury Group as he was when influencing the policies of Presidents.

    By exploring the desires and experiences that made Keynes think as he did, or compelled him to innovate, Davenport-Hines reveals the aesthetic basis of Keynesian economics, and explores why this Great Briton’s ideas continue to instruct and encourage us seventy years after his death.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateMar 12, 2015
    ISBN9780008114626
    Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes
    Author

    Richard Davenport-Hines

    Richard Davenport-Hines won the Wolfson Prize for History for his first book, ‘Dudley Docker’. He is an adviser to the ‘Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’ and has also written biographies of W.H. Auden and Marcel Proust. His most recent book, ‘Titanic Lives’ was published in 2012. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, he reviews for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement.

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