Contents: Part I: Life and work -- 1. John Neville Keynes / Heinrich Bortis -- 2. Florence Ada Keynes / Indra Hardeen -- 3. Lydia Lopokova / Indra Hardeen -- 4. The Bloomsbury Group / Victoria Chick -- 5. The India Office / Donald Moggridge -- 6. World War I / Donald Moggridge -- 7. Keynes and...

Jacob Marschak shaped the emergence of monetary theory and portfolio choice at the Cowles Commission (which he directed from 1943 to 1948, but with which he was involved already from 1937) at the University of Chicago, where he was the doctoral teacher of Leonid Hurwicz, Harry Markowitz and Don...