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Rated The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes 10/10

An exemplary biography of a figure that I, like many, have *heard about* more than I've really *known about*. Carter makes an excellent case for the importance of Keynes through the 20th century and in our own time - it's insightful and grapples with Keynes' contradictions and misfires as much as it does the gravitational impact of his work on the world. A lot of this stuff is abstruse and opaque and Carter is a really good popularizer/explainer, putting into sharper definition a lot of ideas and concepts I'd struggled with. In particular, I think the last couple of chapters are really useful as they define the economic policies of the Clinton and Obama administrations as clearly - and harshly - as I've read in any text. Highly recommend!

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Published 2026-08-18 14:45 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere