What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some of the questions that many asked themselves when the financial system crashed in 2008. This book tackles such questions head-on. The authors begin with the great economist John Maynard Keynes....

In recent years, economic growth has been regarded as a self-evident good, with political debate focussed on the best means to achieve it. But there are now signs that this shared assumption is weakening....

Robert Skidelsky\"s Keynes: The Return of the Master shows how the great economist\"s ideas not only explain why the current financial crisis occurred - but are our best way out. When unbridled capitalism falters, is there an alternative? The twentieth century\"s most influential economist tells us that there is....

Robert Skidelsky\'s three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman\'s life....

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is a central thinker of the twentieth century, not just an economic theorist and statesman, but also in economics, philosophy, politics, and culture. In this Very Short Introduction Lord Skidelsky, a renowned biographer......