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This authoritative Royal Economic Society edition of Essays in Biography contains some of Keyne´s finest writing. It has been reissued with a new introduction by Donald Winch that appraises Keynes´s achievement as biographer, character analyst, and intellectual historian.

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Most of the essays in this book were first collected and published in 1933, when Keynes had reached a turning point in what had by then become a highly successful career as an academic economist, as an official economic advisor, opponent of the reparations imposed on Germany, and critic of the orthodox economic policies of British governments. Before devoting himself fully to the final stages of his journey towards the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money , Keynes put together these examples of one of his favourite literary genres, the psychological portrait and biographical sketch. With the additions made in 1951 and 1972, the book now contains almost all of Keynes´s biographical writings: his savage portraits of the architects of the treaty of Versailles and sketches of other politicians, including Asquith, Balfour, Bonar Law, and Churchill; some classic accounts of the lives of economists, including Malthus, Jevons, Marshall, Edgeworth, and Foxwell; a pair of autobiographical memoirs; a short study of Newton; and many acute and affectionate character sketches of friends. Keynes shows himself here as a literary artist whose work does not suffer by comparison with that of his two friends within the Bloomsbury Group, Virgina Woolf and Lytton Strachey.
This new edition of Keynes´ classic text includes an Introduction by Donald Winch

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Introduction; D.Winch Preface to the First Edition PART I: SKETCHES OF POLITICIANS The Council of Four, Paris 1919 Lloyd George: A Fragment A Meeting of the Council of Three Andrew Bonar Law Herbert Asquith Edwin Montagou Arthur Balfour Winston Churchill Reginald McKenna The Great Villiers Connection Trotsky on England PART II: LIVES OF ECONOMISTS Thomas Robert Malthus William Stanley Jevons Alfred Marshall Mary Paley Marshall Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Herbert Somerton Foxwell Sir Henry Cunynghame Henry Higgs Alfred Hoare PART III: BREIF SKETCHES Wilhelm Lexis Frederic Hillersdon Keeling A. A. Tschuprow Benjamin Strong C. P. Sanger Walter Case George Broomhall Frederick Phillips PART IV: HIS FRIENDS IN KING´S Frank Ramsey A. F. R. Wollaston W. E. Johnson William Herrick Macaulay Dilwyn Knox Julian Bell PART V: TWO SCIENTISTS Newton, the Man Bernard Shaw and Isaac Newton Einstein PART VI: TWO MEMOIRS Melchior: A Defeated Enemy My Early Beliefs

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DONALD WINCH is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex; he was educated at the London School of Economics and Princeton University and has written extensively on the history of economics and the intellectual history of political economy from Adam Smith to Keynes.

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