''The Life of John Maynard Keynes'' is a
non-fiction
Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with b ...
work by
Roy Harrod
Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod (13 February 1900 – 8 March 1978) was an English economist. He is best known for writing '' The Life of John Maynard Keynes'' (1951) and for the development of the Harrod–Domar model, which he and Evsey Domar dev ...
, about the life of
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in ...
. It was first published in 1951. A paperback edition was published in 1983. The paperback edition of Harrod’s authorized biography of Keynes runs 708 pages. According to the preface of the book, Harrod was solicited by Keynes’s younger brother, the scholar
Geoffrey Keynes
Sir Geoffrey Langdon Keynes ( ; 25 March 1887, Cambridge – 5 July 1982, Cambridge) was a British surgeon and author. He began his career as a physician in World War I, before becoming a doctor at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, where h ...
, to write the biography and thus had full access to Keynes' personal papers and his family. Harrod’s biography does not include any unflattering or controversial aspects of Keynes' life.
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Books about John Maynard Keynes
1951 non-fiction books