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In Universal Man known biographer and historian Richard Davenport-Hines revives our knowledge of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), the 20th century's most charismatic and ground-breaking economist. Keynes helped FDR kick off the New Deal, saved Britain from financial meltdown twice over the course of two world wars, and instructed European nations about how to protect themselves from ground-breaking unrest, economical instability, high unemployment, and interpersonal dissolution. Isaiah Berlin called Keynes "the cleverest man I ever before realized" - both "superior and intellectually awe-inspiring". Eric Hobsbawm, the 20th century's preeminent historian, considered him as important as Lenin, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Gandhi, and Mao. Keynes was little or nothing less than the Adam Smith of his time: his General Theory of Job, Interest and Money, posted in 1936, became the most crucial economics booklet of the 20th century, as important as Smith's Riches of Countries in inaugurating an economical era. Keynes' outstanding ideas permitted 35 years of success following the Second World War, the most sustained period of swift expansion in history. And today, and in the wake of the 2008 global economical collapse, he's once more shaping our world. Every day we will probably hear about Keynesian economics or the Keynesian Revolution, conditions that testify to his carrying on affect on both economical theory and authorities guidelines. Indeed, with the extensive discrediting of his competitors - Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, and other followers of the idea that capitalism is self-regulating and needs no authorities intervention - countries around the world are embracing Keynes's signature enhancements: most importantly that governments must require themselves in their economies to stave off financial collapse. Prior biographies have explored Keynes' economical thought at great size and often in the jargon of the self-discipline.
