This timely biography of the economist Wynne Godley (1926-2010) charts his long and often crisis-blown route to a new …-edges other macro-modellers missed, and re-arm ‘Keynesian’ theory against the orthodoxy that had tried to absorb it. Godley gained …, especially to grasp the interlinkage of stocks and flows. This biography also gives due attention to Godley's life outside …