Peter Temin and David Vines's Keynes is highly relevant for today's world. Written in an accessible and lively style, it puts the history of Keynes's thinking into the broader perspective of the history of economic thinking and the history of macroeconomic crises from the interwar years until the present day.
Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
This is the Keynesian story told in real time as Keynes tried to persuade policy makers during the decades between 1919 and 1945. It brings Keynesian thinking alive, and explores how similar today's problems are to those experienced between the wars. Lucidly written for students but also a fascinating exploration of a revolution in economic thought.
Simon Wren-Lewis, Professor of Economics, Merton College, University of Oxford
John Maynard Keynes was one of the towering intellectual figures of the twentieth century and, as a result of the global financial crisis, one of the most controversial figures of the twenty-first. Peter Temin and David Vines, with characteristic clarity, explain precisely why. In so doing they dispatch much unnecessary and unfortunate confusion about the man, the work, and the legacy.
Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
