Robert Skidelsky and the Many Lives of Maynard Keynes (opens in new tab)

Keeping up with the KeynesesThe death of Robert Skidelsky last week marks the passing of one of the most important interpreters of John Maynard Keynes. He will be remembered above all for his monumental three-volume biography of Keynes, widely regarded as the definitive account of Keynes’s life and times. That work, written over several decades, drawing on the Collected Writings edited by Donald Moggridge, did much to reposition Keynes as a historical figure. It also humanized him in ways tha...