Contents: Preface -- Introduction: What were (and are) the debates all about? -- Part I: Keynes and the Keynesians -- 1. Were the Keynesians loyal followers of Keynes? -- 2. What was Keynes's best book? -- 3. Keynes, the Keynesians and the exchange rate -- Part II: The so-called 'Keynesian...

Foundations -- The themes of legacies, logics, logistics -- "Toiling ingenuity": food regulation in Britain and Nigeria -- Public economic cultures -- "The craving for intelligibility": speech and silence on the economy under structural adjustment and military rule in Nigeria (with Laray Denzer)...

This authoritative Royal Economic Society edition of Essays in Biography contains some of Keyne's finest writing. It has been reissued with a new introduction by Donald Winch that appraises Keynes's achievement as biographer, character analyst, and intellectual historian.