Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman, one of today’s leading economists, speaks with Zachary D. Carter, author of an award-winning biography of John Maynard Keynes, the great 20th-century thinker and father of macroeconomics, “whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes” — The Wall Street Journal. What can the life and ideas of Keynes, who traveled from Bloomsbury group parties to the halls of power on two continents, teach us about today’s debates over government spending and inequality?
