Robert Skidelsky is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, author of The World After Communism (1995) and the definitive three-volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes, which received five prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council of Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994 and was elevated to the House of Lords in 1991 and served as Chief Opposition Spokesman on Treasury Affairs (1998-1999). From 1991 to 2001 he was Chairman of the Social Market Foundation. Since 2002 he has been Chairman of the Centre for Global Studies (London). A Russian speaker, he is Director of the Moscow School of Political Studies and Founder and Executive Secretary of The UK/Russia Round Table. He is also a Trustee of the Manhattan Institute and Chairman of the Governors of the Brighton College.
'Nobody who wants to understand one of the most extraordinary Englishmen of his time can do without this biography' E.J. Hobsbawm 'Robert Skidelsky has devoted 20 years to his life of John Maynard Keynes and, with this, the third volume of a biography of Proustian proportions, he has demonstrated that the whole enterprise was worth every ounce of the struggle.' William Keegan, Observer 'This is a throughly fair-minded book, diligently researched and elegantly written. It crowns the edifice of one of the outstanding biographical enterprises of our time... It hides little or nothing, enabling us to understand far more about one of the giants of the 20th century.' Anthony Howard, Management Today
'Nobody who wants to understand one of the most extraordinary Englishmen of his time can do without this biography' E.J. Hobsbawm 'Robert Skidelsky has devoted 20 years to his life of John Maynard Keynes and, with this, the third volume of a biography of Proustian proportions, he has demonstrated that the whole enterprise was worth every ounce of the struggle.' William Keegan, Observer 'This is a throughly fair-minded book, diligently researched and elegantly written. It crowns the edifice of one of the outstanding biographical enterprises of our time... It hides little or nothing, enabling us to understand far more about one of the giants of the 20th century.' Anthony Howard, Management Today
Lord Skidelsky (political economy, Warwick Univ.) has received critical acclaim for this three-volume biography of Keynes, published first in Britain, where last year this final installment was named Book of the Year by the Economist. Here, he provides a scholarly, highly detailed, well-written, and provocative tome on the later years of Keynes's life (he died in 1946). During this period, Keynes created an economy that enabled Britain to pay for the war and worked with his allied covictors to create a postwar economy that outlived him. His theories, persuasiveness, and knowledge were significant not only in providing a mechanism for financing the war effort but in enhancing his position and influence as an economist. Controversies and anti-Keynesian forces were also in the forefront, prompting much debate over his role in economic theory and practice. Skidelsky documents much of this controversy, as well as his subject's personal life, including his marriage to ballerina Lydia Lopokova. The extensive bibliography is useful for further research. Large public and many academic libraries will certainly want to consider this worthy addition for their political economy collections, even if they already have earlier Keynes biographies by Donald Moggridge (Keynes, Routledge, 1992) and Mark Blaug (John Maynard Keynes: Life, Ideas, Legay, Bodart, 1991). Steven J. Mayover, Philadelphia Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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