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By David Andrews


Well-connected in academia, enterprise and executive, John Maynard Keynes was once the most influential financial theorists of the 20 th century. it seems that his theories can be simply as very important for the twenty-first. As Keynes himself defined, his principles all through his existence have been prompted via the ethical philosophy he realized as an undergraduate. however, the which means and importance for Keynes of this early philosophy have remained mostly unexplored.



Keynes and the British Humanist Tradition deals an interpretation of Keynes’s early philosophy and its implications for his later notion. It techniques that philosophy from the viewpoint of the 19th century highbrow context out of which it emerged. The e-book argues that roots of Keynes’s early ideals are to be present in the traditions of the Apostles, the very well-known mystery society to which he and such a lot of his academics belonged. the rules of Keynes’s philosophy might be visible in such writers as John Stuart Mill and Henry Sidgwick, however the underlying rules were obscured through altering models in philosophy and hence require excavation and reconstruction.



This booklet may be of curiosity to scholars and researchers within the background of economics, specifically the idea of John Maynard Keynes, specially his ethics, politics and economics.

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