Universal Man

<p>From the bestselling and award-winning author of ‘An English Affair’ a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century.</p> <p>John Maynard Keynes is the man who saved Britain from financial crisis not once but twice – over the course of two World Wars. He remains a highly influential figure nearly 70 years after his death. But who was he?</p> <p>In this entertaining biography Richard Davenport-Hines gives us the man behind the economics: the connoisseur intellectual public official and statesman who was equally at ease socialising with the Bloomsbury Group as he was persuading prime ministers and presidents.</p> <p>By exploring the desires and experiences that made Keynes think as he did Davenport-Hines reveals the aesthetic basis of Keynesian economics and explores why the ideas of this Great Briton continue to resonate so powerfully today.</p>