Maynard is a very good writer, and it's worth suffering through often tedious descriptions of the construction of the cloud chamber for her moving portrait of a family on the edge of ruin. Her skill is revealed in the details, which ring true. Take, for instance, a scene in which Nate...
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...