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

John Maynard Keynes was not only an economist but also the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the twentieth century. His extraordinary life took him from intimate turn-of-the-century parties in London's riotous Bloomsbury art scene to the fevered negotiations in Paris that shaped the Treaty of Versailles, through stock market crashes on two continents and diplomatic breakthroughs in the mountains of New Hampshire. In this riveting biography, veteran journalist Zachary D. Carter unearths the lost legacy of one of history's most fascinating minds, and follows his ideas through a century of economic thought in a narrative with transformative implications for today's debates over inequality and the power politics that shape the global order.