John Maynard Keynes

Keynes's personality was fixed by the clash between Moorean values - other-worldliness, idealism, pacifism - and Keynes's own nature which craved and attained worldly success, wealth and social influence and approbation. The result was an 'existential' outlook that caused him to become particularly sensitive to the human condition, to human suffering and to real concern. Accordingly, Keynes came to see the world through human, down-to-earth, social nd psychological categories, which were opposed to the 'devine' Platonism of classical economics. This book is thus opposed to the recent probability-based interpretations of Keynes's mature work.

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Acknowledgements - Introduction - Essentialism and Existentialism: My Early Beliefs - Probability: The First 'Struggle of Escape' - The War Years: 'Education Through Violence' - New Uncertainties: Public Opinion and Diplomacy - Speculation: Education by the Financial Markets - The Twenties: Economic and Methodological Heresies - The Macmillan Committee and the Treatise - Platonic Forms - Classical Economics as Platonic Forms - Existentialism and Keynes - Existentialism in The General Theory - The Second World War: Opportunity and Threat - Was Keynes an Economist? - Appendix 1: A Classical Statement of the Multiplier - Appendix 2: Fitzgibbons on 'Animal Spirits' - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index