Keynes

Commended or condemned as the saviour of bourgeois capitalism, Keynes's economic theories and practice remain a powerful influence on the management of Western economies.
But there was another Keynes, too frequently overlooked in thumbnail summaries, whose achievements have been just as influential for British life: the Keynes who created the British Arts Council, fostered what was to become the Royal Ballet, actively served as a National Gallery trustee, founded the Cambridge Arts Theatre.
Binding together economist and patron
of the arts was Maynard Kevnes's fundamental allegiance to those Bloomsbury ideals to which he was drawn as a young
man. In these terms Professor Moggridge analyses Kevnes's intellectual origins and characteristic modes of thought to set in
a broader perspective his contribution to the formulation of British economic policy and the development of economic theory between 1913 and 1946. Drawing on his intimate knowledge of Kevnes's published and unpublished work, he traces the emergence of Keynes's masterpieces, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), A Treatise on Money (1930) and The
General Theory (1936).