John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist of the 20th Century, whose doctrines had a huge impact on American prosperity in the years following the Second World War. This new book by John Philip Jones describes the main features of Keynes's work, including the fiscal and monetary policies he recommended, together with a detailed tracking of how his theories played out in the American economy.

The book focuses on each individual aspect of Keynes's doctrines: his revolutionary emphasis on the economy as a whole (the study that would later become known as macroeconomics);...

THE SUCCESSES AND SACRIFICES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN 1914 This work is a study of military history 'from the top down' and also 'from the bottom up'. It describes a brigade - 4,000 men - of the old British Regular army that fought in the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1914. This army was of the highest quality but was very small. The book describes the strategy and tactics of the fighting, in which the British played a major role. But the work also describes the fighting from the point of view of junior officers and men in the ranks, 'from the bottom up'. JOHNNY. THE LEGEND AND...

THE SUCCESSES AND SACRIFICES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN 1914 This work is a study of military history 'from the top down' and also 'from the bottom up'. It describes a brigade - 4,000 men - of the old British Regular army that fought in the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1914. This army was of the highest quality but was very small. The book describes the strategy and tactics of the fighting, in which the British played a major role. But the work also describes the fighting from the point of view of junior officers and men in the ranks, 'from the bottom up'. JOHNNY. THE LEGEND AND...