The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

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Paul Krugman and Zachary D. Carter in Conversation

This event was recorded live on Tuesday, March 25.

Paul Krugman, one of today’s leading economists, joins in a discussion with Zachary D. Carter, author of an award-winning biography of John Maynard Keynes, the great 20th-century thinker and father of macroeconomics, “whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes” — The Wall Street Journal. What can the life and ideas of Keynes, who traveled from Bloomsbury group parties to the halls of power on two continents, teach us about today’s debates over government spending and inequality? Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, longtime former columnist for The New York Times, and distinguished professor of Economics at the CUNY Graduate Center, helps to illuminate Keynes’ theories for today. He speaks with Carter, biographer, columnist at Slate, and a fellow at the Global Order at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Presented with the Leon Levy Center for Biography and the Stone Center for Socio-Economic Inequality.

For more information about our events, visit: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/public-programs

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1. Keynes was also openly gay

Keynes's early romantic and sexual relationships were exclusively with men.[154] Keynes had been in relationships while at Eton and Cambridge; significant among these early partners were Dilly Knox and Daniel Macmillan.[23]: 27 [155] Keynes was open about his affairs, and from 1901 to 1915 kept separate diaries in which he tabulated his many sexual encounters.[156][157] Keynes's relationship and later close friendship with Macmillan was to be fortunate, as Macmillan's company first published his tract Economic Consequences of the Peace.[23]: 18 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes

[Jim__]

2. Thanks for posting this. Bookmarking to watch later.