Book contents
- Keynes in Action
- Keynes in Action
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 What Really Happened at Paris? Keynes and Dulles
- 2 What Really Happened at Paris? The War Guilt Clause
- 3 ‘You Are Very Famous, Maynard’
- 4 The Truth About Lloyd George
- 5 Yielding to Ramsey
- 6 Yielding to Realities
- 7 Truths between Friends
- 8 Truths between Friends
- 9 The Road to Bretton Woods
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Biographical Works on Keynes
- Index
8 - Truths between Friends
Bloomsbury and Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 November 2022
- Keynes in Action
- Keynes in Action
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 What Really Happened at Paris? Keynes and Dulles
- 2 What Really Happened at Paris? The War Guilt Clause
- 3 ‘You Are Very Famous, Maynard’
- 4 The Truth About Lloyd George
- 5 Yielding to Ramsey
- 6 Yielding to Realities
- 7 Truths between Friends
- 8 Truths between Friends
- 9 The Road to Bretton Woods
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Biographical Works on Keynes
- Index
Summary
In a parallel way, when we move to consider Keynes’s political views and involvement, we find a similar reliance upon the privileged networks of his intimates. In particular the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Keynes, as the two figures of real genius in Bloomsbury, is explored – with insights on the impact that her tract Three Guineas had upon his (much-discussed) memoir ‘My Early Beliefs’. Keynes’s political stance is also examined through his proprietorial influence upon the left-wing weekly the New Statesman, of which Kingsley Martin (a close friend of the late Frank Ramsey) was now the presiding editor. What Keynes wrote about uncertainty in decision-making was as relevant to choices in foreign policy as to the macro-economic universe that he surveyed in his General Theory.
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- Keynes in ActionTruth and Expediency in Public Policy, pp. 172 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022