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John Maynard Keynes

Fighting For Britain

Robert Skidelsky

The third and final instalment on the life of Britain’s greatest economist by Robert Skidelsky draws parallels on the subject’s own ill health with the interwar economy, his pivotal contribution to the war effort finances and post war economic struggle.

First published:
2000
Published by:
Macmillan
Length:
Hardcover 580 pages

About the author

Robert, Baron Skidelsky, FBA is a British economic historian of Russian origin and the author of a major, award-winning, three-volume biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946). He read history at Jesus College, Oxford and is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, England.