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Author - Richard Davenport-Hines
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rulebreaking
Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable....
civilization
Bell defined civilization in the language of a Bloomsbury connoisseur: ‘A taste for truth and beauty,....
economists
The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.
keynes
Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they....
travel
Ritzonia" was the epithet coined by Bernard Bernson, who sold Italian pictures to American millionaires,....
economists
Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden....
politics
At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.
culture
Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does....
economics
He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them....
bookshops
Keynes was a voracious reader. He had what he called ‘one of the best of all gifts – the eye which....
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