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Dissenting forbears : the maternal ancestors of J.M. Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton (1883-1946) was a noted economist.Maynard Keynes was a remarkable man. His teaching and writings dominated economic thinking during the middle of the 20th century throughout the world, and put him in the same class as Adam Smith or Karl Marx as a thinker whose theories influenced academic opinion and government action on a global scale. The author is a first cousin of the great man and inherited family records stretching over two centuries. These include diaries, letters and books. From this material he has been able to make a detailed study of Keynes?s ancestry.

John Maynard Keynes : life, ideas, legacy

An introduction to Keynesian economics and a study of the influence of Keynes' ideas on economic theory and economic policy through conversations with eight leading economists, including several Nobel prize winnersAn introduction to Keynesian economics and a study of the influence of Keynes' ideas on economic theory and economic policy through conversations with eight leading economists, including several Nobel prizewinners. It has been fifty years since Keynes published his controversial book, The General Theory of Employment (1936) and yet he remains a controversial figure to this day, attacked and criticised from both left and right, as this book amply demonstrates.

Essays and sketches in biography, including the complete text of Essays in biography, and Two memoirs