A biography of John Maynard Keynes without the economics may seem like "Hamlet" without the prince. But Richard Davenport-Hines has set out to write such a book, and the result is utterly absorbing. His argument is that Keynes deserves to be remembered for much else besides his economic works: in addition to being an economist, the great man was also a boy genius, a civil servant, a national opinion-shaper, a lover, a connoisseur and aesthete, and a statesman. Indeed Keynes himself wrote: "The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts...He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher-in some degree."
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