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Chartbook 322: "Can We Consume Our Surplus?" or John Maynard Keynes on "The Influence of Furniture on Love"

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John Maynard Keynes was an aesthete in the most capacious sense. Questions of beauty and artistic creation were at the heart of his ethical and political thinking. My co-presenter of the podcast, Cam Abadi picked this up as the somewhat off-center approach to Keynes that we took at our recent live recording in NYC. You can hear the episode here. In the course of my reading for the show, I came across a variety of very interesting writings about Keynes and aesthetics, notably the essay by Gilles Dostaler on "Keynes, art and aesthetics." in the collection Keynes’s General Theory After Seventy Years. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010 edited by Robert W. Dimand, Robert A. Mundell and Alessandro Vercelli. Dostaler made reference to a fascinating-sounding essay that Keynes contributed in 1909 as a young man to the Apostles society with the intriguing title: “Can We Consume Our Surplus? or The Influence of Furniture on Love”. In the recording last week in New York, I quoted from this essay

Chartbook 322: "Can We Consume Our Surplus?" or John Maynard Keynes on "The Influence of Furniture on Love" Adam Tooze Sep 29, 2024 82 5 9 Share John Maynard Keynes was an aesthete in the most capacious sense. Questions of beauty and artistic creation were at the heart of his ethical and political thinking. My co-presenter of the podcast, Cam Abadi picked this up as the somewhat off-center approach to Keynes that we took at our recent live recording in NYC. You can hear the episode here. In the course of my reading for the show, I came across a variety of very interesting writings about Keynes

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