Above all, Davenport-Hines sells his title and his proposition: Keynes is about much more than borrowing and spending, deficits and interest rates and in order to understand his economics one needs to understand the man and his times. Contrary to the assertions of his free-market detractors, Keynes sought to save capitalism not to undermine it. He wanted to destroy that scourge of happiness and prosperity, unemployment, and to preserve those aspects of civilisation which promoted “the good life”. These were bold and universal aspirations which could only have come close to being achieved by a man of universal brilliance.