ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1992
Jezik: Srpski
Autor: Strani

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John Maynard Keynes, Volume One: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920
Robert Skidelsky
Editorial: Macmillan, 1992
475 pages

The life of John Maynard Keynes is of extraordinary interest in both its public and private spheres. It is the great achievement of , this first volume of Robert Skidelsky`s biography that the author not only moves with scholarly yet uninhibited skill between the two spheres, but brings to life overall patterns the story and the times. It is the mark of the extraordinary scope and intelligence and insight of Robert Skidelsky`s book that one looks forward to: the next volume not only as a continuation of the skillfully told story, but as a commentary on matters still of vital interest today.`
Nicholas Mosley

‘Skidelsky has uncovered huge floods of evidence about his subject`s private life. He describes Bloomsbury`s atmosphere with beautiful precision and skill. Keynes was a highly successful member of the Establishment... Yet he was also its devastating critic. How could the same man be both of these things at once? Skidelsky solves the puzzle and brings the two halves of Keynes`s life together. This shows every sign of being one of the great biographies of our generation.`
David Marquand

‘A wholly sane, well-judged, well-researched and well-written book.`
Bernard Crick

‘This is a great fruit-cake of a book. Cut and come again; there is plenty for everyone. The whole must rank among the great biographies of the time.`
Terence de Vere White

Hopes Betrayed establishes, concisely and brilliantly, Keynes`s historical setting, and explains convincingly what turned him into a radical economist. Nobody who wants to understand one of the most extraordinary Englishmen of his time, or for that matter the history of his country and subject, can henceforth do without this biography.`
E.J. Hobsbawm
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` Hopes Betrayed` establishes Keynes` historical setting and explains what turned him into a radical economist. He gives an analysis of the economist`s sustained assault on conventional wisdom, and shows how Keynes` story is not just that of a revolution in economic theory, but also part of the story of the evolution of modern government. Other books by Robert Skidelsky include ` Politicians and the Slump` , ` The End of the Keynesian Era` and ` Oswald Mosley` .

John Maynard Keynes` life faithfully portrayed by Robert Skidelsky, is a life of a man grown up amidst the intelectual aristocracy of his time, which coincided with the beginning of the downfall of the Victorian age and was to culminate in the First World War. His father John Neville Keynes was a famous economist of his time and had many other intelectual atributes which he didn`t want to put up to test in the academic arena, despite a lot of incentives by the famous economist Alfred Marshall, the most proeminent thinker of the neo-classics school of thought. Neville Keynes was determined instead to follow closely and have influence upon the professional careers of his most inteligent son. To anyone who whished to compare this situation to the education the philosopher James Mill gave to his son John Stuart Mill, I would warn he/she to be cautious cause the result is very much different than could be foresaw.

What the book shows is the fascinating formative years of one of the most influential men of all times, who had a strong appetite for getting all the knowledge he could get and who didn`t hide behind his geniality. Quite to the contrary, Keynes was up for everything he could grab, be it different sexual male partners, a lot of trips to Italy and a lot of academic prizes, estimulated by the spirit of competion his father tried to assert on him, at the end to no avail. Also, the pace of his intelectual output is outstanding, being Keynes almost always pushed to the limit to do a lot of different things at the same time.

Some crude aspects of Keynes sexual life are also all there via the transcriptions of the many letters he exchanged with his male lovers and friends of the many different intelectual cycles he was part of.
His education at the noblest institutions in England (Eton and Cambridge)where he got the opportunity to intermingle with the likes of Bertrand Russell, Virginia Wolf, Whitehead and the philosopher Moore, the latter certainly the most fundamental influence he had in these formative years, provided the social and intelectual backgrounds needed to awake the geniality of the most brilliant economist of the last century.



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