“A tremendously informative book.” _Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner in economics
Winner of the 2021 Hillman Award, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and nominee for the Condill History Award (2020)
Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Economist, Bloomberg, Mother Jones, and Publisher's Weekly

About the most influential economist and great Enlightenment intellectual in modern history.
An intellectual biography that delves into the life and thought of John Maynard Keynes!

At the beginning of World War I, a young scholar set out for London on a motorcycle with a sidecar.
At the time, England was in the fifth day of the worst financial crisis in history, and the war that would engulf Europe was just beginning in earnest.
Britain was in the grip of fear and chaos brought on by war and economic crisis.
The young scholar proposed a groundbreaking method to alleviate this crisis and confusion.
Britain accepted the young scholar's proposal and was able to escape the dire crisis.
The young scholar who helped London escape the crisis was none other than John Maynard Keynes.
Through this incident, he was able to establish himself from an unknown scholar to one of the most influential intellectuals of his time.

Veteran journalist Zachary D.
In his first book, Carter exquisitely weaves together the personal life of John Maynard Keynes with his academic, cultural, and political activities.
Keynes is often known only as a brilliant economist.
However, Carter introduces Keynes through his life as a brilliant anti-authoritarian thinker, a man who devoted his life to the belief that art and thought could conquer war and poverty.
A moral philosopher, political theorist, and statesman, Keynes distinguished himself at various historical moments, from London's Bloomsbury Group, a haven for artists and intellectuals, to the stock market crashes on both continents, the negotiations at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire, ballet performances at London's lavish Covent Garden, and the Paris Conference that resulted in the Treaty of Versailles.
In this way, Carter shows us Keynes's diverse facets and makes us realize that he is by no means a figure who can be limited to being simply an economist.

Keynes's ideas formed the foundation of the economics that developed rapidly in the United States, helping to move toward peace and prosperity.
However, Keynesians, who inherited Keynes's ideas, began an intellectual battle for the future of the nation against the vested interests, which ignited the fuse of a broad political struggle called the Cold War.
Ultimately, Keynes's ideas survived the struggle, but the work he had dedicated his life to was lost.
Keynes was a philosopher of peace and war and the last intellectual of the Enlightenment who considered political theory, economics, and ethics as a single problem.
The work he dedicated his life to was not about raising taxes or controlling government spending, but about creating a world where many people could live worthwhile lives.
Through Keynes's life and thoughts presented in this book, readers will be able to gain a new perspective on the problems of inequality that still arise today and the power politics that shape the world order.