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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

Zachary D. Carter

Can the economics of Keynes, shaped by war and depression, help build a better and more peaceful world?

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Zachary D. Carter

Why read it

  • You will see Keynes as an optimist more than a technician, whose answer to hard times was taking action today
  • You will question the virtue of thrift as the road to great things, as Keynes did with his Seven Wonders challenge
  • You will notice how today's talk of a Green New Deal and a new Bretton Woods draws on ideas Keynes proposed decades ago

Who it is for

  • Reader puzzled by deficits, depressions and what governments should do
  • Admirer of Bloomsbury curious about the economist among them
  • Voter hearing debates about a new New Deal

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Chapter One: After the Gold Rush
  3. Chapter Two: Blood Money
  4. Chapter Three: Paris and Its Discontents
  5. Chapter Four: Consequences
  6. Chapter Five: From Metaphysics to Money
  7. Chapter Six: Prolegomena to a New Socialism
  8. Chapter Seven: The Great Crash
  9. Chapter Eight: Phoenix
  10. Chapter Nine: The End of Scarcity
  11. Chapter Ten: Came the Revolution
  12. Chapter Eleven: War and Counterrevolution
  13. Chapter Twelve: Martyr to the Good Life
  14. Chapter Thirteen: The Aristocracy Strikes Back
  15. Chapter Fourteen: The Affluent Society and Its Enemies
  16. Chapter Fifteen: The Beginning of the End
  17. Chapter Sixteen: The Return of the Nineteenth Century
  18. Chapter Seventeen: The Second Gilded Age
  19. Conclusion

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