THE AGE OF KEYNES "The New Economics of the 1960s is the triumph of an idea. And the idea itself is above all the product of the creative genius of a single man -John Maynard Keynes.... This is a book which attempts to tell the story of the man whose brain conceived the idea. Accordingly, it is an account of his education and career, of his teachers, friends, and asso- ciates-the Cambridge of G. E. Moore, E. M. Forster, and Lytton Strachey; the Bloomsbury of Virginia Woolf and Clive Bell; the King's College economics of Alfred Marshall and A. C. Pigou; the worlds of art, rare books, high finance, and public administration, in all of which Keynes was a familiar. "This book is also the biography of a mind, an effort to trace the events and influences which converted the inventive pupil of conven- tional economics into the most influential heretic of his age.... Most theorists consider themselves fortunate if during their careers they grasp and expound one major conception of their subject. For Keynes one was a small number. His mind was powerful, flexible, and inventive, a trio of qualities infrequently found in each other's company. "Moreover, unlike most men of abstract thought, Keynes was not a resident of ivory towers. When he wrote economics, he hoped to convert his colleagues but even more he wanted to operate upon general edu- cated opinion, and above all he longed to divert public officials from mistaken policy to enlightened action. "The chapters which follow... will recite the tale that can be told of the life, times, thought, and triumph of the greatest economist of his age."Robert Lekachman.(Arka kapaktan)