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Clarke, Peter. 1988. _The Keynesian Revolution in the Making,  
1924-1936_.  Oxford: Clarendon Press.   
 
Keynes is probably the most studied economist of the 20th  
century, but before this book, historians of economic thought  
typically offered the thinnest of historical treatments of Keynes:  
typically analysing only Keynes' own writings and then in limited  
contexts, often "looking backwards" from later times. The book,  
written by an historian, places Keynes in his historical moment.  
Clarke convincingly shows that The General Theory had its origins  
in the specific conditions obtaining in 1920's Britain. He also shows  
how Keynes' relationships and interactions with members of the  
Treasury and of the Bank of England shaped his views. It is thus a  
lovely piece of history, but also one that has prompted a closer  
examination of context in Keynesian scholarship, and thereby in  
history of thought in general, a very welcome move indeed.   
 
Bruce J. Caldwell 
University of North Carolina, Greensboro 
 
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