Keynes and the British Academy

Drawing on evidence ‘from the archive’, this is the story of how the distinguished economist John Maynard Keynes was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1929, having originally been rejected in 1920.

• Donald Winch

The whole article can be downloaded as a PDF file.

Published in British Academy Review, Issue 22 (Summer 2013).

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