Word: keynesism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Away from Orthodoxy. Those hard lessons weighed heavily on the dele gates from 45 nations who created day's monetary system during three summer weeks of 1944 in the forest-cupped resort town of Bretton Woods, N.H. Out of their deliberations came the Washington-based International Monetary Fund and...
Other accounts have been written of Strachey, author of Eminent Victorians, but all of them, says Rees, have omitted his sexual preference- an ardent, lifelong homosexuality. The 1,229-page, two-volume biography by Michael Holroyd is long enough-and honest enough-to include much of Strachey's hitherto...
Underground Doctrine. Strachey and Keynes were leaders of the Cambridge contingent of that select literary circle, the Bloomsbury group. Its members' intellectual attainments were beyond dispute, but a central preoccupation, suggests Rees, was homosexuality. Nor was it confined to this group. At both Oxford and Cambridge in the period...
Smith & Keynes. Galbraith's defenders pooh-pooh much of the criticism as little more than naked envy. "His tremendous vogue is very annoying to many university economists," observes the University of California's (La Jolla) Seymour Harris, a onetime Harvard colleague. "They reason that anyone with that kind of rapprochement...
Up & Up. It was at Harvard in 1936 that Galbraith first read John Maynard Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, and became an immediate convert. It was there that he met a clutch of Kennedys: Joe Jr., then a sophomore; young Jack, who was "gayer, more easygoing...