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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes [3] CB, FBA (/ k eɪ n z / KAYNZ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist and philosopher whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments.
Vol. 1. Hopes Betrayed 1833-1920 (1983) focuses on Keynes's early life, education, and his emergence as a public intellectual during World War I.Vol. 2. The Economist as Saviour, 1920-37 (1992) covers Keynes's contributions to economics, his involvement in international affairs, and his rise to a prominent economist.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money is a book by English economist John Maynard Keynes published in February 1936. It caused a profound shift in economic thought, [1] giving macroeconomics a central place in economic theory and contributing much of its terminology [2] – the "Keynesian Revolution".
Keynesian economics (/ ˈ k eɪ n z i ə n / KAYN-zee-ən; sometimes Keynesianism, named after British economist John Maynard Keynes) are the various macroeconomic theories and models of how aggregate demand (total spending in the economy) strongly influences economic output and inflation. [1]
The series explores the lives of John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, and Karl Marx, and their influence on modern economics. [2] Keynes is known for Keynesian economics and as an early pioneer of macroeconomics, Hayek is part of the Austrian School of economics, and Marx is known for communism and the theories that are collectively called ...
Marxism and Keynesianism is a method of understanding and comparing the works of influential economists John Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx.Both men's works has fostered respective schools of economic thought (Marxian economics and Keynesian economics) that have had significant influence in various academic circles as well as in influencing government policy of various states.
In September 1939, John Maynard Keynes turned his attention to reviewing two extensive articles on studies conducted by the League of Nations. One of these reviews was focused on the work of Jan Tinbergen, and it was incomplete as of July 27. However, Keynes, having read Tinbergen's work in draft form the previous year, managed to complete his ...
John Maynard Keynes (right) and Harry Dexter White at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944. The post-war displacement of Keynesianism was a series of events which from mostly unobserved beginnings in the late 1940s, had by the early 1980s led to the replacement of Keynesian economics as the leading theoretical influence on economic life in the developed world.