it occupies only a third of the narrative. Of the remainder, half describes Maynard's childhood as the daughter of an alcoholic father and a frustrated, overbearing mother; the other half follows her through an ill-fated marriage and the birth of three children. The early section, in which...
In a telling passage ofJohn Maynard Keynes: Vol 2 The Economist As Saviour 1920-1937, Keynes’ biographer Robert Skidelsky informs us that (bold and italicised emphasis added): In Keynes’s view capitalism’s driving force is avicewhich he called “love of money” … in the General Theory...