John Maynard Keynes, one of the most influential economists of the 20th century, made an important contribution to public affairs and to Britain's cultural life. D.E. Moggridge takes a look at the man and his achievements. He traces Keynes' career on all levels, from academic Cambridge, to artistic Bloomsbury, to official Whitehall and to the City. Particular attention is paid to the role of Lydia Lopokova, the Russian ballerina, whom Keynes married in 1925. She provided Keynes with the stability that took him from being a successful academic economist to creating two pioneer works of...

Harry Johnson (1923-1977) was such a striking figure in economics that Nobel Laureate James Tobin designated the third quarter of the twentieth century as the age of Johnson. Johnson played a leading role in the development and extension of the Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade, wrote fundamental articles on the balance of payments and later developed the monetary approach to the balance of payments. Within monetary economics he was also a seminal figure who, in a series of surveys, identified and explained the links between the ideas of the major post-war innovators. This book...