*  *  *  Introduction 1 “The economist John Maynard Keynes is back in fashion”, writes Robert Skidelsky in the preface of his most recent book “Keynes, the Return of the Master”, published less than one year ago.
The reason, says Skidelsky, is not so much that the world is facing the worst crisis since the Great Depression and that governments all over the world have embarked on stimulative packages to support the economy, as the author of the General Theory had advocated, but because Keynes “provides the right kind of theory”, a theory which is “an indispensable guide for the future”.