Publicado por Basic Books; Perseus, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 0465060676 ISBN 13: 9780465060672
Librería: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. 418 pages, illustration; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In Universal Man, noted biographer and historian Richard Davenport-Hines revives our understanding of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), the twentieth century's most charismatic and revolutionary economist. Keynes helped FDR launch the New Deal, saved Britain from financial crisis twice over the course of two World Wars, and instructed Western nations on how to protect themselves from revolutionary unrest, economic instability, high unemployment, and social dissolution. Isaiah Berlin called Keynes 'the cleverest man I ever knew'--both 'superior and intellectually awe-inspiring.' Eric Hobsbawm, the twentieth century's preeminent historian, considered him as influential as Lenin, Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, Gandhi, and Mao. Keynes was nothing less than the Adam Smith of his time: his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in 1936, became the most important economics book of the twentieth century, as important as Smith's Wealth of Nations in inaugurating an economic era. Keynes's brilliant ideas made possible 35 years of prosperity after the Second World War, the most sustained period of rapid expansion in history. And now, and in the wake of the 2008 global economic collapse, he is once again shaping our world. Every day, we are likely to hear about 'Keynesian economics' or the 'Keynesian Revolution,' terms that testify to his continuing influence on both economic theory and government policies. Indeed, with the thorough discrediting of his opponents--Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Alan Greenspan, and other supporters of the notion that capitalism is self-regulating, and needs no government intervention--nations across the world are turning to Keynes's signature innovations: above all that governments must involve themselves in their economies to stave off financial collapse. Previous biographies have explored Keynes economic thought at great length and often in the jargon of the discipline. Universal Man is the first accessible biography of Keynes, and reveals Keynes as much more than an economist. Like many Englishmen of his class and era, Keynes compartmentalized his life. Accordingly, Davenport-Hines views Keynes through multiple windows, as a youthful prodigy, a powerful government official, an influential public man, a bisexual living in the shadow of Oscar Wilde's persecution, a devotee of the arts, and an international statesman of great renown. Delving into Keynes's experiences and thought, Davenport-Hines shows us a man who was equally at ease socialising with the Bloomsbury Group as he was persuading heads of state to adopt his policies. Exploring the desires and experiences that compelled Keynes to innovate, Davenport-Hines is the first to argue that Keynesian economics has an aesthetic basis. In this book we come to understand not just the most enduringly influential economist of the modern era, but one of the most gifted and vital men of our times: a disciplined logician with a capacity for glee who persuaded people, seduced them, subverted old ideas, and installed new ones; a man whose high brilliance did not give people vertigo, but clarified and lengthened their perspectives. Engaging, learned, and sparkling with wit and insight, Universal Man is the perfect match for its subject. / Richard Davenport-Hines is the award-winning author of Dudley Docker and acclaimed biographies of W. H. Auden and Marcel Proust. He is an adviser to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, and a regular reviewer for the Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.
Publicado por London : HarperPress, 2013
ISBN 10: 0007435843 ISBN 13: 9780007435845
Librería: MW Books, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Illus. With Photos Ilustrador. First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 400 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Prime Minister -- War minister -- Lord -- Doctor -- Good-time girls -- Landlords -- Hacks -- Spies -- Acting up -- Show trials -- Safety curtain. Subjects; Profumo, John D. Sexual behavior. Keeler, Christine Sexual behavior. Keeler, Christine. Great Britain. Prime Minister (1957-1963 : Macmillan) Political corruption Great Britain History 20th century. Scandals Great Britain History 20th century. Political corruption. Politics and government. 1 Kg.
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Publicado por London ; Totowa, N.J. : F. Cass, 1988
ISBN 10: 0714633488 ISBN 13: 9780714633480
Librería: MW Books, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 118 pages; 18cm; illus with graphs. Notes: Includes index. Contents: chapter FAILINGS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: SOME BRITISH BUSINESSES, 1910-80 -- chapter BRITISH BUSINESS AND THE TRANSITION TO A CORPORATE ECONOMY: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT STRUCTURES -- chapter MODELLING THE GROWTH STRATEGIES OF BRITISH FIRMS -- chapter CONSUMER MARKETING IN BRITAIN 1914-60 -- chapter SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN BRITISH BUSINESS HISTORY -- chapter PRIVATISATION:THE TRIUMPH OF PAST PRACTICE OVER CURRENT REQUIREMENTS. Subjects: Industrial management Great Britain History 20th century. Business enterprises Great Britain History 20th century.Technological innovations Economic aspects Great Britain History 20th century. Industrial management Great Britain History. Business enterprises Great Britain History. Technological innovations Economic aspects Great Britain. Industrial management Great Britain History 20th century. Business enterprises Great Britain History 20th century.Technological innovations Economic aspects Great Britain History 20th century. Business. 20th Century. Marketing. Privatisation. History. Entrepreneurship. Organisational Structures. Great Britain. Great Britain Business enterprise 1914-1960 1 Kg.
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Publicado por London : Fontana, 1991
ISBN 10: 0006862195 ISBN 13: 9780006862192
Librería: MW Books, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
First Edition in this form. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 439p., ill., plates ; 20cm. Subjects: Sexual ethics -- Great Britain -- History. 1 Kg.
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Publicado por William Collins, 2013
ISBN 10: 0007435851 ISBN 13: 9780007435852
Librería: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, Nueva Zelanda
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 400 pages. A dazzling reconstruction of the Profumo Affair which brings to life Sixties England and uncovers the shocking truth behind the scandal. Britain in the early 1960s was dominated by the legacy of two world wars. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, the Edwardian stalwart, led a Conservative government dedicated to .
Publicado por Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989
Librería: The Book Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
23.5x16 cm. XVI+299 pages. Gilt hardcover in dust jacket. In good condition. The book is in : English.
Publicado por London: HarperPress, 2013
Librería: MW Books, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 400 p. [plates] 24 cm. Subjects: Profumo, John D. Sexual behavior. Keeler, Christine Sexual behavior. Political corruption Great Britain History 20th century. Scandals Great Britain History 20th century. Political corruption. Politics and government 1 Kg.
Publicado por London : Cass, 1987
Librería: MW Books, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 150 pp. Subjects; Business enterprises Great Britain History 18th century. Enlightenment Great Britain. Commerce. 1 Kg.
Publicado por London: HarperPress, 2013
Librería: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
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1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 400 p. [plates] 24 cm. Subjects: Profumo, John D. Sexual behavior. Keeler, Christine Sexual behavior. Political corruption Great Britain History 20th century. Scandals Great Britain History 20th century. Political corruption. Politics and government 1 Kg.
Publicado por London : Cass, 1987
Librería: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 150 pp. Subjects; Business enterprises Great Britain History 18th century. Enlightenment Great Britain. Commerce. 1 Kg.