The Old Economist, Relevant Amid the Rubble

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was, on the page and off, formidable. He was tall, an impeccable dresser in dark suits and homburgs, a product of Eton and Cambridge, a director of the Bank of England. His words could be withering. “When I argued with him,” the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “I felt that I took my life in my hands.” Read more… http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/books/18book.html?ref=books