Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Pigou in the foreground -- "The most brilliant young man i know" -- Developing a framework -- The theory of policy analysis -- The cost controversies -- The Robbins critique -- Confrontations with Keynes -- Legacy -- Notes -- References -- Index

Grosse Ökonomen, ihr Werk und ihre Bedeutung kennenlernen. Bis zur Finanzkrise war es in wirtschaftspolitischen Debatten hierzulande oftmals verpönt, im Sinne von Keynes zu argumentieren. Heute hat sich dieses Bild gewandelt: Viele Ökonomen und Politiker nehmen Bezug auf den genialen Briten -...

Prologue: "With devouring fury" -- "Large, wild, fiery, black" -- "In mirth and refutation; in ridicule and laughter" -- "Vive la guillotine" -- The literary banker -- "The ruin inflicted on innocent creditors" -- "The young gentleman out of Miss Austen's novels" -- A death in India -- The...

This authoritative Royal Economic Society edition of Essays in Biography contains some of Keyne's finest writing. It has been reissued with a new introduction by Donald Winch that appraises Keynes's achievement as biographer, character analyst, and intellectual historian.