KEYNES, John Maynard - WILLIAMS-ELLIS, Clough (ed.).

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Britain and the Beast. First edition of this collection of essays on the preservation of rural England, of which the first is by John Maynard Keynes, whose contribution "Art and the State" was originally published in 1936 in The Listener. Keynes was a strong supporter of state patronage of the arts, and was the first chairman of the Arts Council.This copy was acquired from the estate of the prominent economic historian Robert Skidelsky (1939-2026). His three-volume biography of Keynes, published from 1983 to 2000, is considered the definitive study of the economist's life.

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