The Price of Peace
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The Price of Peace
| Full title | The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes |
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| Author | Zachary D. Carter |
| Published | 2020 |
| Pages | 656 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Zachary Carter’s biography of Keynes as a political thinker rather than a modelling economist — the Versailles argument, Bloomsbury, Bretton Woods — and then the long afterlife in which his American followers turned him into something narrower than he was. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025. The full set of replies lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- John Maynard Keynes — the subject.
- Macroeconomics — the discipline he made and that then reduced him.
- Ideological Family Tree — the book is largely about what happens to an idea after its author.
- Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises — Dalio’s practitioner account of the same cycles, named in a different thread Kyle saved.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.