As I read, I thought the book would make a terrific film or TV series, and the afterword admits it was first conceived as a film script. The point of Mr Keynes’ Revolution is the story – the Bloomsbury background (they all emerge as dreadful people), and above all the unlikely romance. If you want the ins and outs there is no shortage of books about Keynes, from Skidelsky’s magisterial biography (in one volume or three) to more recent examples such as Richard Davenport’s Universal Man or Backhouse and Bateman’s Capitalist Revolutionary. Ms Barnes is a Cambridge economics graduate she makes Keynes’s arguments seem like common sense, and manages to drop hints about how The General Theory, published a decade later, took shape in Keynes’ mind.īut there is nothing of the worthy wholemeal about the economic thread in the novel. We are served some (Keynesian) economics, with a light touch. In between, he meets ballerina Lydia Lopokova and eventually marries her. It ends with his similar failure to win the argument about not returning Britain to the Gold Standard. I never miss the Briefing and its long-read, detailed approach to a particular hot-topic I devour Charlemagne and Bagehot, which have taught me a lot about the EU and Britain and I sometimes. The book starts with Keynes storming out of the Versailles Treaty discussions in despair at the shape of the settlement, his arguments about the need not to make it impossible for Germany to recover, and writing The Economic Consequences of the Peace. And a very good novel too, one I thoroughly enjoyed reading. Aged 42.) has been captured in a book, and its every. Barnes’ novel is different: it’s a novel about a remarkable character in turbulent times. The Economist red poster campaign (first execution: I never read the Economist.
However, these examples use fiction to teach readers economic concepts. history provide more than enough interest to make The Reckoning a worthwhile read. There are the very jolly Marshall Jevons crime novels, and Russ Roberts’ The Price of Everything and The Invisible Heart. The economics books on our list are written by relevant award-winning. been two media recessions, yet The Economist has never deviated from this policy. 1 reason may still be the Obituaries section. The Economist, in ‘ Michael Gove, moderate maverick ’. Now the Woosters have imploded and Mr Gove is his own man. He tells Business Insider that his daily round consists of Reddit, Hacker News. The objective was to encourage more people to read The Economist by. In his earlier incarnations in politics, Mr Gove always played Jeeves to an Etonian Wooster. You can read more book reviews or buy The Economist Style Guide: 11th. Because it isn’t as if people haven’t tried to turn economics into fiction before. The Danish programmer and creator of the programming language Ruby on Rails consumes a tech-filled fare each morning. The wit is dry, never forced and always gentle.
When Emma Barnes, the author of Mr Keynes’ Revolution, got in touch to tell me about her new novel about an episode in the life of Keynes, I was a little sceptical although always happy to read a new book.
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