Essays in Biography

by J. Keynes

Overview

This authoritative Royal Economic Society edition of Essays in Biography contains some of Keyne's finest writing. It has been reissued with a new introduction by Donald Winch that appraises Keynes's achievement as biographer, character analyst, and intellectual historian.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230249585
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/21/2010
Series:	Palgrave Insights in Psychology Series
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	495
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

DONALD WINCH is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex; he was educated at the London School of Economics and Princeton University and has written extensively on the history of economics and the intellectual history of political economy from Adam Smith to Keynes.

Table of Contents

Introduction; D.Winch Preface to the First Edition PART I: SKETCHES OF POLITICIANS The Council of Four, Paris 1919 Lloyd George: A Fragment A Meeting of the Council of Three Andrew Bonar Law Herbert Asquith Edwin Montagou Arthur Balfour Winston Churchill Reginald McKenna The Great Villiers Connection Trotsky on England PART II: LIVES OF ECONOMISTS Thomas Robert Malthus William Stanley Jevons Alfred Marshall Mary Paley Marshall Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Herbert Somerton Foxwell Sir Henry Cunynghame Henry Higgs Alfred Hoare PART III: BREIF SKETCHES Wilhelm Lexis Frederic Hillersdon Keeling A. A. Tschuprow Benjamin Strong C. P. Sanger Walter Case George Broomhall Frederick Phillips PART IV: HIS FRIENDS IN KING'S Frank Ramsey A. F. R. Wollaston W. E. Johnson William Herrick Macaulay Dilwyn Knox Julian Bell PART V: TWO SCIENTISTS Newton, the Man Bernard Shaw and Isaac Newton Einstein PART VI: TWO MEMOIRS Melchior: A Defeated Enemy My Early Beliefs