Conclusion

Looking back over the career and work of Keynes, several elements of possible concluding sections for this book continually spring into one’s mind. However, the man himself, not to mention his influence, invariably eludes simple categories and forms of organization with his many-sidedness, his insistence on being ‘just ‘Keynes’. In the end, one is tempted to give up and echo the final line of Austin Robinson’s contribution to the art of short biography, which stands favourable comparison with many of Keynes’s forays into the field, ‘Maynard Keynes was utterly unique’.