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Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
418 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In Universal Man, noted biographer and historian Richard Davenport-Hines revives our understanding of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), the twentieth century's most charismatic and revolutionary economist. Keynes helped FDR launch the New Deal, saved Britain from financial crisis twice over the course of two World Wars, and instructed Western nations on how to protect themselves from revolutionary unrest, economic instability, high unemployment, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a Cambridge philosopher and economist, Keynes spent his days moving between government service and academia. When he was called up to the Treasury on the eve of World War I, he relished an opportunity to save the empire. With the disastrous Versailles Treaty, with its harsh demands for German reparations, Keynes saw how the strain on its citizens might encourage would-be authoritarians. In a career that spanned two world wars and a global depression,...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In this three part-series, BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders examines how three extraordinary thinkers, Keynes, Hayek, and Marx, helped shape the 20th century and continue to exert a huge influence on the world today. In this time of economic crisis, economists and their ideas have never mattered so much and Flanders explores whether their theories were right. Masters of Money is a witty and provocative series that conveys complicated ideas...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious that she is grossly underprepared for a talk she is presenting tomorrow on optimism and John Maynard Keynes, she has resolved to practice by using an ancient rhetorical method of assigning parts of her speech to different rooms in her house, and has brought along a comforting albeit imaginary companion to keep...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
viii, 449 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the events of the Bretton Woods accords, presents portaits of the two men at the center of the drama, and reveals Harry White's admiration for Soviet economic planning and communications with intelligence officers.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 418 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Twentieth-century warfare, based on new technologies and vast armies, saw the locomotive power of war heightened to an unprecedented level. Through the unique prism of this vast tragedy, Peter Clarke examines some of the most influential figures of the day, on both sides of the Atlantic. I.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 453 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The idea of world leaders gathering in the midst of economic crisis has become all too familiar. But the meeting at Bretton Woods in 1944 was different. It was the only time countries from around the world have agreed to overhaul the structure of the international monetary system. Against all odds, they were successful. The system they set up presided over the longest, strongest and most stable period of growth the world economy has ever seen. Its...
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