Word: keynesism
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They read everything from Beardsley's Practical Logic to Crane Brinton's Ideas and Men. They studied the Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita, proceeded to the Iliad, the plays of Sophocles and Shakespeare, Dante's Inferno, The Brothers Karamazov, Remembrance of Things Past, Ulysses, The Magic Mountain...
The "golden echo" that rings throughout his book is of an English era when thoughtful men and women (except for those in Brixton) were so unconstricted and free from world-worry that the occasional explosions of war and revolution fell on their ears like detonations from another planet. So inbred...
"He is the only authentic genius I know." Dean Acheson said that the two greatest minds he had ever met were Lord Keynes and Robert Oppenheimer. Those estimates measure his influence in postwar Washington. His most devoted followers and the source of much of his strength were the scientists still...
The 40 Lenten days that began March 3 and will end at Eastertide* have been for Christians a time for prayer and devotion, and for all men a time of urgency and stress. History, poised between Ivy and Jughead, between the 38th parallel and Dienbienphu, has enforced a Lenten mood...
In a year that saw several valiant attempts at clarifying the gloomy science of economics, Robert L. Heilbroner scored a popular triumph in The Worldly Philosophers. He made the ordinarily dusty trip from Adam Smith to Karl Marx to John Keynes as clear and straight as anyone who ever took...