"Hopes Betrayed" establishes Keynes' historical setting and explains what turned him into a radical economist. He gives an analysis of the economist's sustained assault on conventional wisdom, and shows how Keynes' story is not just that of a revolution in economic theory, but also part of the story of the evolution of modern government. Other books by Robert Skidelsky include "Politicians and the Slump", "The End of the Keynesian Era" and "Oswald Mosley".

With his second volume chronicling the life and career of John Maynard Keynes,—"the most important economist of the twentieth century, to be grouped only with Adam Smith and Leon Walras" (The Washington Post Book World)—Robert Skidelsky traces his life, his work, and their relationship to world events through the reception of the General Theory in 1937. Skidelsky sets Keynes' development of a new economic philosophy firmly in the context of World War I's destruction of all international economic and political systems, and he shows how his marriage to Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova, which shocked his Bloomsbury cohorts, reflected his maturing sense of his place in the world. Skidelsky's skillful interweaving of Keynes' public and private lives illuminates the story of a complex and richly talented man who set out to save liberal capitalist civilization from the perils of communism and dictatorship.

The third and final volume in the author's definitive portrait of John Maynard Keynes chronicles his final years, from 1937 to his death in 1946, discussing Keynes' contribution to the funding of Britain's war effort, the construction of the postwar economic order, and Britain's role in the Atlantic alliance. Reprint.

THE DEFINITIVE SINGLE\-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY Robert Skidelsky's three\-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist\-statesman's life. Here, Skidelsky has revised and abridged his magnum opus into one definitive book, which examines in its entirety the intellectual and ideological journey that led an extraordinarily gifted young man to concern himself with the practical problems of an age overshadowed by war. John Maynard Keynes offers a sympathetic account of the life of a passionate visionary and an invaluable insight into the economic philosophy that still remains at the centre of political and economic thought. ROBERT SKIDELSKY is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000\) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. ('This three\-volume life of the British economist should be given a Nobel Prize for History if there was such a thing' \- Norman Stone.) He was made a life peer in 1991, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994\. 'A masterpiece of biographical and historical analysis' \- New York Times