Keynes, Bloomsbury and The General Theory

An examination of the values and outlook of John Maynard Keynes as influenced by his experiences at Eton and Cambridge, and by G.E.Moore and Bloomsbury. The author traces Keynes' rejection of Bentham's ideas and the genesis of "The General Theory", Keynes' blueprint for cultural reconstruction.

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The 19th century anti-Benthamite tradition; Eton and Keynes; Cambridge, Keynes and the Apostles; G.E.Moore and Keynes; Bloomsbury and the revolution in aesthetics; Keynes, Bentham and the nature of economics; Lytton Strachey and the new history; Virginia Woolf and the psychological realism; "The General Theory"; "we have failed, haven't we?".