Fellows of the British Academy - Karl Popper, J Rgen Habermas, Joseph Stiglitz, Mortimer Wheeler, Amartya Sen, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 203. Chapters: John Maynard Keynes, Karl Popper, Joseph Stiglitz, Hans Mommsen, Eric Hobsbawm, Rowan Williams, Mervyn King (economist), Jacques Dreze, Jurgen Habermas, Ian Kershaw, Karl Dietrich Bracher, Tony Judt, Amartya Sen, Bernard Williams, Richard J. Evans, Henry Chadwick (theologian), Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Isaiah Berlin, William Crooke, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Terry Eagleton, Simon Baron-Cohen, Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, Ralf Dahrendorf, A. L. Rowse, Ronald Dworkin, James Meade, Charles Thomas (historian), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Joseph Needham, George Steiner, Ernest Gellner, Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, Ralph Henry Carless Davis, John Barton (theologian), James George Frazer, David Harvey (geographer), Norman Davies, Nikolaus Pevsner, Jack Goody, Ron Martin (geographer), Quentin Skinner, Ernst Gombrich, Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, Martin Litchfield West, Gershom Scholem, P. F. Strawson, Philip Grierson, Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, Raymond Firth, F. F. Bruce, Marilyn Strathern, Melvyn Bragg, David Daube, Roy Porter, Manuel Castells, Morris Ginsberg, Mortimer Wheeler, John Wheeler-Bennett, Donald Wiseman, Raymond Carr, Adam Roberts (scholar), Moses I. Finley, Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, Stephan Korner, T. P. Wiseman, Basil Markesinis, John Macquarrie, David Young, Baron Young of Graffham, Maurice Kendall, J. L. Mackie, Bruce M. Metzger, Ian Hacking, Kenneth Clark, Walter Burkert, James Mirrlees, Wilfred Thesiger, Kurt Aland, Joan Robinson, Thomas Ashby, Helen Wallace, E. P. Sanders, David Cox (statistician). Excerpt: John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton in the County of Sussex CB, FBA (; 5 June 1883 - 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, and informed the economic policies of governments. He built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles, and is widely considered to be one of the founders of modern macroeconomics and the most influential economist of the 20th century. His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, as well as its various offshoots. In the 1930s, Keynes spearheaded a revolution in economic thinking, overturning the older ideas of neoclassical economics that held that free markets would, in the short to medium term, automatically provide full employment, as long as workers were flexible in their wage demands. Keynes instead argued that aggregate demand determined the overall level of economic activity, and that inadequate aggregate demand could lead to prolonged periods of high unemployment. He advocated the use of fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions and depressions. Following the outbreak of World War II, Keynes's ideas concerning economic policy were adopted by leading Western economies. During the 1950s and 1960s, the success of Keynesian economics resulted in almost all capitalist governments adopting its policy recommendations. Keynes's influence waned in the 1970s, partly as a result of problems that began to afflict the Anglo-American economies from the start of the decade, and partly because of critiques from Milton Friedman and other economists who were pessimistic about the ability of governments to regulate the business cycle with fiscal policy. However, the advent of the global financial crisis in 2007 caused a resurgence in Keynesian thought. Keynesian economics provided the theoretical underpinning for economic policies undertaken in response to