Universal Man: The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
Autor Richard Davenport-Hinesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 mai 2015
John
Maynard
Keynes
(1883-1946)
was
the
twentieth
century's
most
influential
economist.
His
ideas
inspired
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt
to
launch
the
New
Deal
and
instructed
Western
nations
on
how
to
ward
off
revolutionary
unrest,
economic
instability,
high
unemployment,
and
social
dissolution.
Keynes
was
nothing
less
than
the
Adam
Smith
of
his
time:
hisThe
General
Theory
of
Employment,
Interest
and
Moneybecame
as
important
in
the
twentieth
century
as
Smith'sThe
Wealth
of
Nationswas
in
the
eighteenth.
Now,
in
the
long
wake
of
the
2008
global
economic
collapse,
Keynesian
economics
is
once
again
shaping
our
world.
InUniversal
Man,
acclaimed
historian
Richard
Davenport-Hines
offers
the
first
biography
of
Keynes
that
reveals
the
man
in
full.
Like
many
Englishmen
of
his
class
and
era,
Keynes
compartmentalized
his
life.
Accordingly,
Davenport-Hines
treats
Keynes
in
turn
as
a
youthful
prodigy,
a
powerful
government
official,
an
influential
public
man,
a
bisexual
living
in
the
shadow
of
Oscar
Wilde's
persecution,
a
devotee
of
the
arts,
and
an
international
statesman
of
worldwide
renown.
Delving
into
Keynes's
experiences
and
thought,
Davenport-Hines
shows
us
a
man
who
was
equally
at
ease
socializing
with
the
Bloomsbury
Group
as
he
was
persuading
heads
of
state
to
adopt
his
policies.
Through
Davenport-Hines'
nuanced
portrait,
we
come
to
understand
not
just
the
most
enduringly
influential
economist
of
the
modern
era,
but
one
of
the
most
gifted
and
vital
men
of
our
times:
a
disciplined
logician
with
a
capacity
for
glee
who
persuaded
people,
seduced
them,
subverted
old
ideas,
and
installed
new
ones.
Engaging,
learned,
and
sparkling
with
wit
and
insight,
Universal
Man
is
the
perfect
match
for
its
brilliant
subject.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465060672
ISBN-10: 0465060676
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 165 x 244 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0465060676
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 165 x 244 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Notă biografică
Richard
Davenport-Hinesan
award-winning
historian,
as
well
as
the
acclaimed
biographer
of
W.
H.
Auden
and
Marcel
Proust.
An
advisor
to
the
Oxford
Dictionary
of
National
Biography
and
a
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Historical
Society
and
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Literature,
he
lives
in
London.
Recenzii
"[A]
succinct,
lively
and
well-written
biography....
[Reducing
the
amount
written
on
Keynes]
has
been
done
with
great
elegance
and
panache
by
Davenport-Hines,
in
a
volume
that
will
introduce
Keynes
and
his
strange
world
to
a
new
generation
of
readers."—London
Evening
Standard
"[Davenport-Hines's] lens is directed not at Keynes the macroeconomist but at Keynes the man himself. Fortunately, the author has a rich and compelling story to tell...non-economists who have never read a Keynes biography and are not looking for lots of technical detail and jargon will find it an absorbing read. Even many economists, like me, are likely to derive some fun and profit from it."—H-Net
"This is an entrancing book, always light but never weightless and I am sure that John Maynard Keynes would have enjoyed it."—The Oldie(UK)
"This book will suit a broad audience wanting to understand Keynes and the period in which he lived."—Library Journal
"An admiring and nuanced book filled with insights into this scholar and man of action in all his complexity."—Kirkus Reviews
"[A] gracefully written biography.... This is a delightful, detailed portrait, rich in interesting anecdote and encompassing the entire roster of Keynes's accomplishments."—Publishers Weekly
"[F]ascinating reading.... [Davenport-Hines] has understood his subject better than any previous biographer.—Spectator(UK)
"Never has the biography of an economist been so gripping, so witty or, indeed, so racy: Keynes had countless flings with men before, as his biographer puts it, 'he got the knack of heterosexuality' and enjoyed a happy marriage."—Daily Mail
"[T]his marvelous book is a high achievement: It shows us Keynes as altruist, boy prodigy, official, public man, art connoisseur and envoy. He was a gay man who switched over when he met the Russian dancer Lydia Lopokova, an enjoyer of life who worked himself to death, an economic savior, a truly great man who never imposed a dull moment."—Toronto Star
"This book is organized in an unusual but very effective way.... The result is that the intellectual, social, professional, and personal aspects of Keynes are described and analyzed both independently and as they interrelated to create a complex and brilliant thinker. This is a splendid biography that will fascinate the general reader and give new insight to the scholar. Highly recommended."—Choice
"Universal Manranges effortlessly across Keynes's overstuffed life."—Los Angeles Times
"Davenport-Hines is incapable of writing a dull sentence. His prose sings, his curiosity is omnivorous and he has a piercingly sharp eye for detail.... Has there ever been a more entertaining biography of an economist? I doubt it."—
"[A]n amusing, elegant and provocative writer...great fun. By focusing on Keynes as a private man and public figure rather than an academic economist, it is possible to see him as the last and greatest flowering of Edwardian Liberalism."—Sunday Times(UK)
"[A] first-class book, which I cannot praise highly enough.... Keynes possessed a largeness of mind that one can only call noble and a generosity of spirit that was truly princely. This admirable book does him justice."—Literary Review(UK)
"Richard Davenport-Hines has given us an internationally acclaimed book that will reward its readers both in pleasure and in virtue."—Forbes.com
"For the reader already acquainted with the economics, or indeed not especially interested, there is a lot of fun to be had in this book."—
"With wit and grace, as well as a good deal of scholarly digging, the author looks at Keynes in seven distinct but overlapping guises.... [I]t is always, in Davenport-Hines's hands, a story told in an incisive and thoughtful way.... The book conveys its own vision of this wholly extraordinary and undeniably idiosyncratic figure with persuasive artistry and conviction"—Financial Times
"As often earthy as he was austere, cruel as he was humane, crude as he was genteel, Keynes the politician and economist yields here to Keynes the man. Richard Davenport-Hines's fascinating character sketch shows that Keynes was all the things that the rest of us are, except ordinary."—Eric Rauchway,author ofThe Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
"Richard Davenport Hines's portrait of Keynes is as vivid as fresh paint. You can see the genius of many parts dashing to Number Ten Downing Street or dancing a jig with Lydia. It's wonderful."—Sylvia Nasar,author ofA Beautiful Mind
"A book which is worthy of its brilliant subject, Universal Man manages to expound Keynes's ideas while shining with his own optimistic spirit. The fact that this is a book about intellectuals and ideas, does not prevent it from shimmering with low gossip. Richard Davenport-Hines is as deft at describing international political summit meetings as he is at evoking the ballet. Lively, funny, original, and beautifully written."—A. N. Wilson,author ofVictoria: A Life
"Treating Keynes's lives as interesting and valuable for their own sake, and not just as a means to his economics, gives them an extra vividness.... With a keen eye for telling detail and social connections, Davenport-Hines brilliantly conveys what one might call the peripheral atmospherics of Keynes's existence."—The Observer
"Who said economists were dull? For anyone practising economics today...this book is a treat.... We read endlessly about Keynes the economist. But he was so much more and this unputdownable book explores not so much Keynes the economist as much as Keynes the man."—Independent(UK)
"[A] highly enjoyable series of portraits.... Above all, Davenport-Hines sells his title and his proposition: Keynes is about much more than borrowing and spending, deficits and interest rates and in order to understand his economics one needs to understand the man and his times."—Daily Telegraph(UK)
"[An] engaging and sympathetic biography.... It is extremely difficult to write a biography for the general reader of a man much cleverer than oneself, and to do so admiringly yet critically, but Davenport-Hines brings it off."—The Scotsman(UK)
"[A] rewarding and fascinating book."—Daily Mail(UK)
"[Davenport-Hines's] lens is directed not at Keynes the macroeconomist but at Keynes the man himself. Fortunately, the author has a rich and compelling story to tell...non-economists who have never read a Keynes biography and are not looking for lots of technical detail and jargon will find it an absorbing read. Even many economists, like me, are likely to derive some fun and profit from it."—H-Net
"This is an entrancing book, always light but never weightless and I am sure that John Maynard Keynes would have enjoyed it."—The Oldie(UK)
"This book will suit a broad audience wanting to understand Keynes and the period in which he lived."—Library Journal
"An admiring and nuanced book filled with insights into this scholar and man of action in all his complexity."—Kirkus Reviews
"[A] gracefully written biography.... This is a delightful, detailed portrait, rich in interesting anecdote and encompassing the entire roster of Keynes's accomplishments."—Publishers Weekly
"[F]ascinating reading.... [Davenport-Hines] has understood his subject better than any previous biographer.—Spectator(UK)
"Never has the biography of an economist been so gripping, so witty or, indeed, so racy: Keynes had countless flings with men before, as his biographer puts it, 'he got the knack of heterosexuality' and enjoyed a happy marriage."—Daily Mail
"Richard
Davenport-Hines's
fine
series
of
sketches
of
Keynes
makes
a
clear
case
that
he
was
a
great
man
--
intellectually
dazzling
and
original,
generous-spirited,
industrious,
astonishingly
wide-ranging
and
largely
effective....
Davenport-Hines
has
produced
a
very
readable
single
volume
that
succeeds...by
providing
a
professional,
temperate
and
clear
account
of
a
gripping
subject."
—New
Statesman(UK)"[T]his marvelous book is a high achievement: It shows us Keynes as altruist, boy prodigy, official, public man, art connoisseur and envoy. He was a gay man who switched over when he met the Russian dancer Lydia Lopokova, an enjoyer of life who worked himself to death, an economic savior, a truly great man who never imposed a dull moment."—Toronto Star
"This book is organized in an unusual but very effective way.... The result is that the intellectual, social, professional, and personal aspects of Keynes are described and analyzed both independently and as they interrelated to create a complex and brilliant thinker. This is a splendid biography that will fascinate the general reader and give new insight to the scholar. Highly recommended."—Choice
"Universal Manranges effortlessly across Keynes's overstuffed life."—Los Angeles Times
"Davenport-Hines is incapable of writing a dull sentence. His prose sings, his curiosity is omnivorous and he has a piercingly sharp eye for detail.... Has there ever been a more entertaining biography of an economist? I doubt it."—
Mail
on
Sunday(UK)
"[A]n amusing, elegant and provocative writer...great fun. By focusing on Keynes as a private man and public figure rather than an academic economist, it is possible to see him as the last and greatest flowering of Edwardian Liberalism."—Sunday Times(UK)
"[A] first-class book, which I cannot praise highly enough.... Keynes possessed a largeness of mind that one can only call noble and a generosity of spirit that was truly princely. This admirable book does him justice."—Literary Review(UK)
"Quite
short,
readable
and
a
lot
of
fun
in
a
rather
tawdry
sort
of
way,
it
is
the
ideal
companion
for
a
weekend
break
or
a
short
holiday.
Certainly
it
is
the
best
biography
now
available
for
noneconomists."
—Wall
Street
Journal"Richard Davenport-Hines has given us an internationally acclaimed book that will reward its readers both in pleasure and in virtue."—Forbes.com
"A
biography
of
John
Maynard
Keynes
without
the
economics
may
seem
likeHamletwithout
the
prince.
But
Richard
Davenport-Hines
has
set
out
to
write
such
a
book,
and
the
result
is
utterly
absorbing....
Davenport-Hines
manages
to
pick
out
little-known
stories,
brilliant
details
and
curiosities,
relayed
with
affection....
[An]
accomplished
biography."
—Economist"For the reader already acquainted with the economics, or indeed not especially interested, there is a lot of fun to be had in this book."—
The
TimesBook
of
the
Week
(UK)
"With wit and grace, as well as a good deal of scholarly digging, the author looks at Keynes in seven distinct but overlapping guises.... [I]t is always, in Davenport-Hines's hands, a story told in an incisive and thoughtful way.... The book conveys its own vision of this wholly extraordinary and undeniably idiosyncratic figure with persuasive artistry and conviction"—Financial Times
"As often earthy as he was austere, cruel as he was humane, crude as he was genteel, Keynes the politician and economist yields here to Keynes the man. Richard Davenport-Hines's fascinating character sketch shows that Keynes was all the things that the rest of us are, except ordinary."—Eric Rauchway,author ofThe Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction
"Richard Davenport Hines's portrait of Keynes is as vivid as fresh paint. You can see the genius of many parts dashing to Number Ten Downing Street or dancing a jig with Lydia. It's wonderful."—Sylvia Nasar,author ofA Beautiful Mind
"A book which is worthy of its brilliant subject, Universal Man manages to expound Keynes's ideas while shining with his own optimistic spirit. The fact that this is a book about intellectuals and ideas, does not prevent it from shimmering with low gossip. Richard Davenport-Hines is as deft at describing international political summit meetings as he is at evoking the ballet. Lively, funny, original, and beautifully written."—A. N. Wilson,author ofVictoria: A Life
"Treating Keynes's lives as interesting and valuable for their own sake, and not just as a means to his economics, gives them an extra vividness.... With a keen eye for telling detail and social connections, Davenport-Hines brilliantly conveys what one might call the peripheral atmospherics of Keynes's existence."—The Observer
"Who said economists were dull? For anyone practising economics today...this book is a treat.... We read endlessly about Keynes the economist. But he was so much more and this unputdownable book explores not so much Keynes the economist as much as Keynes the man."—Independent(UK)
"[A] highly enjoyable series of portraits.... Above all, Davenport-Hines sells his title and his proposition: Keynes is about much more than borrowing and spending, deficits and interest rates and in order to understand his economics one needs to understand the man and his times."—Daily Telegraph(UK)
"[An] engaging and sympathetic biography.... It is extremely difficult to write a biography for the general reader of a man much cleverer than oneself, and to do so admiringly yet critically, but Davenport-Hines brings it off."—The Scotsman(UK)
"[A] rewarding and fascinating book."—Daily Mail(UK)