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8 - Truths between Friends

Bloomsbury and Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2022

Peter Clarke
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University of Cambridge
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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 Action
Truth and Expediency in Public Policy
, pp. 172 - 197
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Truths between Friends
  • Peter Clarke, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Keynes in Action
  • Online publication: 04 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009255028.009
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  • Truths between Friends
  • Peter Clarke, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Keynes in Action
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009255028.009
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  • Truths between Friends
  • Peter Clarke, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Keynes in Action
  • Online publication: 04 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009255028.009
Available formats
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