Volume 41, Number 5 · March 3, 1994
Acts of an Apostle
By Robert L. Heilbroner
John Maynard Keynes, Vol. II: The Economist as Saviour 1920–1937
by Robert Skidelsky
Viking, 731 pp., $37.50
The second volume of Robert Skidelsky's remarkable biography of John Maynard Keynes opens in 1921 with Keynes in Cambridge reading an after-dinner speech at a meeting of the Apostles, the select society of Cambridge of which at age thirty-eight he was president. The speech describes the career of one of its members, J.E. Moulton, who had recently died. Moulton had been a brilliant mathematician and then Fellow of Christ's Church, but he had forsaken scholarship to go in for money-making, at which he had been very successful. Keynes defends his actions as an exercise, not a betrayal, of his best abilities:
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