Essays in Biography

by John Maynard Keynes

Overview

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783368655457
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	02/02/2024
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.76(d)

About the Author

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 returbaned to Cambridge as a Fellow of King's in 1909 and remained a Fellow until his death.

Table of Contents

Introduction; D.Winch Preface to the First Edition PART I: SKETCHES OF POLITICIANS The Council of Four, Paris 1919 Lloyd George: A Fragment A Meeting of the Council of Three Andrew Bonar Law Herbert Asquith Edwin Montagou Arthur Balfour Winston Churchill Reginald McKenna The Great Villiers Connection Trotsky on England PART II: LIVES OF ECONOMISTS Thomas Robert Malthus William Stanley Jevons Alfred Marshall Mary Paley Marshall Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Herbert Somerton Foxwell Sir Henry Cunynghame Henry Higgs Alfred Hoare PART III: BREIF SKETCHES Wilhelm Lexis Frederic Hillersdon Keeling A. A. Tschuprow Benjamin Strong C. P. Sanger Walter Case George Broomhall Frederick Phillips PART IV: HIS FRIENDS IN KING'S Frank Ramsey A. F. R. Wollaston W. E. Johnson William Herrick Macaulay Dilwyn Knox Julian Bell PART V: TWO SCIENTISTS Newton, the Man Bernard Shaw and Isaac Newton Einstein PART VI: TWO MEMOIRS Melchior: A Defeated Enemy My Early Beliefs