R. P. T Davenport-Hines

Davenport-Hines revives our understanding of John Maynard Keynes, the twentieth century's most charismatic and revolutionary economist.

Melding social, political, and cultural history, the auhor illustrates that intoxication is neither unnatural nor deviant, and describes how for thousands of years human beings have taken substances to change their physical or emotionalemotuional state. He argues that drug use is a necessary part of human experience, recounting how many drugs that are controlled or prohibited nowadays were freely available until the early twentieth century.