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EPISODE · Jul 15, 2025 · 53 MIN

Radical economics — what can we learn from the life of John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes was an economist whose dreams went beyond balance sheets and into political ideas and cultural movements.He advised world leaders during world wars, witnessed the great depression first hand and counted himself as one of the Bloomsbury group, a set of London's most influential writers and intellectuals like Virginia Woolf.This discussion from CUNY Graduate Center is an in depth look at the life of JohnMaynard Keynes and explores his influence on 20th century economics and politics.SpeakersZachary CarterJournalist and author who wrote the award-winning Keynes biography "The Price of Peace: money, democracy, and the life of John Maynard Keynes"Paul KrugmanNobel Prize-winning economist, longtime former columnist for The New York Times, and distinguished professor of Economics at the CUNY Graduate Center

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