The
Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
by Zachary D. Carter
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“An
important, resonant, and memorable portrait” (Jon Meacham) of world-changing
economist John Maynard Keynes and the transformative ideas that outlived him
“A
brilliantly wrought, beautifully written life of one of the most captivating
intellects of the twentieth century.”—Liaquat Ahamed, author of Lords of
Finance
At the dawn of World War I, a
young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the
sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that
would change the course of history. Swept away from his placid home at
Cambridge University by the currents of the conflict, Keynes found himself
thrust into the halls of European treasuries to arrange emergency loans and
packed off to America to negotiate the terms of economic combat. The terror and
anxiety unleashed by the war would transform him from a comfortable obscurity
into the most influential and controversial intellectual of his day—a man whose
ideas still retain the power to shock in our own time.
Keynes was not only an
economist but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the twentieth
century, one who devoted his life to the belief that art and ideas could
conquer war and deprivation. As a moral philosopher, political theorist, and
statesman, Keynes led an extraordinary life that took him from intimate
turn-of-the-century parties in London’s riotous Bloomsbury art scene to the
fevered negotiations in Paris that shaped the Treaty of Versailles, from stock
market crashes on two continents to diplomatic breakthroughs in the mountains
of New Hampshire to wartime ballet openings at London’s extravagant Covent
Garden.
Along the way, Keynes
reinvented Enlightenment liberalism to meet the harrowing crises of the
twentieth century. In the United States, his ideas became the foundation of a
burgeoning economics profession, but they also became a flash point in the
broader political struggle of the Cold War, as Keynesian acolytes faced off
against conservatives in an intellectual battle for the future of the
country—and the world. Though many Keynesian ideas survived the struggle, much
of the project to which he devoted his life was lost.
In this riveting biography,
veteran journalist Zachary D. Carter unearths the lost legacy of one of
history’s most fascinating minds. The Price of Peace revives a forgotten set of
ideas about democracy, money, and the good life with transformative
implications for today’s debates over inequality and the power politics that
shape the global order.
Product
details
Hardcover : 656 pages
Publisher : Random House
(May 19, 2020)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0525509038
ISBN-13 : 978-0525509035
Product Dimensions : 6.3 x 1.7 x 9.5 inches
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