John Maynard Keynes

Keynes on the Wireless

Herausgegeben:Moggridge, Donald

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Produktbeschreibung

'The slump in trade and employment and the business losses which are being incurred are as bad as the worst which have ever occurred in the modern history of the world. No country is exempt. The privation and what is sometimes worse the anxiety which exists today in millions of homes all over the world is extreme.' John Maynard Keynes, The Problem of Unemployment', volume IX 'Essays in Persuasion', page 135. '
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, world leaders and influential economists are once again turning to the ideas of John Maynard Keynes. Keynes is widely regarded as one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. His work revolutionised economic thinking in the 1930s, and his ideas and policies were followed by Governments around the world up until the 1970s.
Keynes on the Wireless brings together transcripts of John Maynard Keynes' famous BBC wireless broadcasts, covering the world economy during and in the aftermath of the Great Depression and moving into the first year of World War II. With an introduction by Donald Moggridge, co-editor of the 'Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes', this unique anthology provides an insight into Keynes' influence and legendary contribution to economics, which still resonates today.
This unique compilation of Keynes' BBC broadcasts includes an Introduction by Donald Moggridge

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-23916-6
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780230239166
• ISBN-10: 0230239161
• Artikelnr.: 29736158

Autorenporträt

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES was born in Cambridge in 1883, son of John Neville Keynes, later registrary of the university; his mother was one of the earliest women students. Educated at Eton and King's, he passed into the Civil Service in 1906, working for three years in the India office. He returned to Cambridge as a Fellow of King's in 1909 and remained a Fellow until his death.

Inhaltsangabe

The Problem of Unemployment Cancellation/The War Debts Poverty in Plenty The Bank Rate University Men in Business Broadcast on the Slump for CBS Network, USA Unemployment: A Discussion Pros and Cons of Tariffs Roosavelt's Economic Experiments Spending and Saving State Planning Will Rearmament Cure Unemployment The World Economic Conference British Finances After a Year of War Paying for Twelve Month's War Should Saving be Compulsory? Tax on Lower Incomes How Much Does Finance Matter The Arts Council On Reading Books The Inter-Allied Debts Bretton Woods

Rezensionen

'Keynes on the Wireless is a gem of a book. From a critique of Roosevelt's economic policies to the poetry of T.S.Eliot; from the point of universities to paying for the Second World War, these essays give full range to Keynes's sparkling originality and lucid praise. A wonderful read from start to finish.' Larry Elliott, Economics Editor, Guardian, UK

'Keynes was not only a great economist but also a great communicator. His radio broadcasts, edited and introduced by one of his most insightful biographers, are easy to understand and they offer a simple but introduction to ideas that are as important now as when they were broadcast.' - Roger E. Backhouse, University of Birmingham, UK and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

'Keynes revealed great talent in using an intimate medium to give popular expositions of the remedies he was advocating in his serious writings. This book reprints the scripts of twenty-one of these broadcasts, each of which is expertly introduced by Donald Moggridge, the editor of the Royal Economic Society edition in which they originally appeared.' Donald Winch, University of Sussex, UK

' what gives me most pleasure is his prose lucid, exact and well-mannered.' Joan Bakewell, The Observer

'...an excellent new collection...' - The Daily Mail