"The Great Recession of 2008 restored John Maynard Keynes to prominence. After decades when the Keynesian revolution … Keynes have done?" The Financial Times wrote of "the undeniable shift to Keynes." Le Monde pronounced the economic collapse … Keynes's "revenge." Two years later, following bank bailouts and Tea Party fundamentalism, Keynesian principles once again …

has been reissued with a new introduction by Donald Winch that appraises Keynes's achievement as biographer, character …