ABSTRACT
Writing the history of the ideas of John Maynard Keynes is a complex and difficult business. Keynes led a complex and busy life, and this fact alone would make the scholar’s work complicated-all the more so since Keynes left so much of his paperwork behind: in addition to the thirty volumes of the Collected Writings, there are more than 100 boxes of original material deposited in the Modern Archives of King’s College, Cambridge. Add to this the fact that most of the people in his personal and professional circles are themselves the regular subject of biographers and historians, and the size of the task involved in trying to place him in a clear and accurate historical focus is daunting.
