Book Review: Of Kings, Keynes, and Capitalism

Alberto Mingardi

The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
by Zachary D. Carter
Random House, 656 pages, $37

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Why should someone write another biography of Keynes? Major biographies of John Maynard Keynes (not merely books on Keynes and Keynesianism, of which the supply is far larger) include the 1951 Life of John Maynard Keynes by Roy Harrod; the 1992 Maynard Keynes: An Economist’s Biography by Donald Moggridge...