Review: Keynes: The Return of the Master
User Review - Avi - GoodreadsSkidelsky is clearly a chapter 12 Keynesian, focussed primarily on the role of uncertainty in causing instability. There is very little on chapter 17 (on the interest rate), which is really the most ... Read full review
Review: Keynes: The Return of the Master
User Review - GoodreadsClear explanation of economics from a Keynesian master.
Review: Keynes: The Return of the Master
User Review - Steve - GoodreadsKeynes was an atheist, but he was not a Humanist, at least not in the way I understand the term. Still, his theories are the closest I've read to what I would consider a Humanist economics, especially ... Read full review
Review: Keynes: The Return of the Master
User Review - Peter Fortune - GoodreadsRobert Skidelsky is John Maynard Keynes's most prominent biographer and advocate. His earlier biography of Keynes is outstanding, capturing the complicated his personal and intellectual life in a ... Read full review
Review: Keynes: The Return of the Master. Robert Skidelsky
User Review - Nick - GoodreadsKeynes has been misappropriated by many, even more so over the last few years. Skidelsky is the pre-eminent authority on him. A good read, both as an introduction to Keynes' thinking and on the ... Read full review
Review: Keynes: The Return of the Master
User Review - Marshall - GoodreadsThis is a biography of John Maynard Keynes, the man who revolutionized economics in the 1930's. His ideas helped shape much of American capitalism until the 1980's when classical economics had a ... Read full review
Review: Keynes: The Return of the Master
User Review - Greg - Goodreadsboring, boring, boring. More of a biography than lessons applied to today's economy Read full review
Review: Keynes: The Return of the Master
User Review - Goodreads“The chief argument of this book has been that underlying the escalating succession of financial crises we have recently experienced is the failure of economics to take uncertainty seriously” (audio ...
Review: Keynes: The Return of the Master
User Review - Jeff Wills - GoodreadsI highly recommend this book for those who want an informed overview of Keynes's philosophy without having the time to tackle Skidelsky's weighty one volume or massive 3 volume biography of John Maynard Keynes. Superb book! Read full review
Review: Keynes: The Return of the Master
User Review - Sandy Sopko - GoodreadsSo far, I have finished the "Anatomy of the Crisis" -- this brought to mind the online chat in one of my masters classes (in 2007) regarding using homeownership programs for borrowers who would ... Read full review
