Keynes in Action

Truth and Expediency in Public Policy

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Peter Clarke

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John Maynard Keynes died in 1946 but his ideas and his example remain relevant today. In this distinctive new account, Peter Clarke shows how Keynes's own career was not simply that of an academic economist, nor that of a modern policy advisor. Though rightly credited for reshaping economic theory, Keynes's influence was more broadly based and is assessed here in a rounded historical, political and cultural context. Peter Clarke re-examines the full trajectory of Keynes's public career from his role in Paris over the Versailles Treaty to Bretton Woods. He reveals how Keynes's insights as an economic theorist were rooted in his wider intellectual and cultural milieu including Bloomsbury and his friendship with Virginia Woolf as well as his involvement in government business. Keynes in Action uncovers a much more pragmatic Keynes whose concept of 'truth' needs to be interpreted in tension with an acknowledgement of 'expediency' in implementing public policy.

Author Biography:

Peter Clarke was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989. His previous publications include Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000 (2004), The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt (2017) and studies on John Maynard Keynes including The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924–1936 (1988) and Keynes (2009).

Release date Australia

November 24th, 2022

Author

Peter Clarke

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

274

Dimensions

147x223x20

ISBN-13

9781009255011

Product ID

35925544

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