title: Keynes: A Very Short Introduction
author: Robert Skidelsky
description: <br>Lord Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. He biggest work is a three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes; <em>Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920</em>, (1983), <em>The Economist as Saviour, 1920-1937</em>, (1992), and <em>Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946</em>, (2000). His new book about the current economic crisis, <em>Keynes: the Return of the Master</em>, published in September 2009. <br>
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  ROBERT AND EDWARD SKIDELSKY
  
  How Much is Enough?
  
   _The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life_
  
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  ALLEN LANE  
  _an imprint of_  
  PENGUIN BOOKS
  
  Contents
  
  > >  _Preface_
  
  > >  _List of Charts_
  
  > > Introduction
  
  > > 1\. Keynes’s Mistake
  
  > > 2\. The Faustian Bargain
  
  > > 3\. The Uses of Wealth
  
  > > 4\. The Mirage of Happiness
  
  > > 5\. Limits to Growth: Natural or Moral?
  
  > > 6\. Elements of the Good Life
  
  > > 7\. Exits from the Rat Race
  
  > >  _Notes_
  
   _To Hugo_  
   _That his possibilities may live up to the hopes_  
   _Keynes had for his ‘grandchildren’_
  
  List of Charts
  
    
    
  
    1. Keynes’s Forecast
    2. Growth since Keynes
    3. Weekly Hours since Keynes
    4. Hours of Work since 1983
    5. Income Share of the Richest 1 per cent
    6. GDP per Head and Life Satisfaction
    7. Happiness According to Income Position in the UK
    8. Happiness and Income by Country
    9. Alcohol-related Deaths in the UK
    10. Obesity in the UK
    11. U