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John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, England, in June 1883 to an upper-middle-class family. His father, John Neville Keynes , was an economist and a lecturer in moral sciences at the University of Cambridge and his mother, Florence Ada Keynes , a local social reformer.
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 economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) lived here from 1916. The Bloomsbury Group was a group of associated British writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the early 20th century. [1] Among the people involved in the group were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, and Lytton Strachey.
The council's first chairman was John Maynard Keynes who used his influence in government to secure a high level of funding despite Britain's poor finances following the war. The majority of this funding was directed to organisations with which Keynes had close ties such as the Royal Opera House and was restricted to Central London. Keynes used ...
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".
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.
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]
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.