John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes was a British economist whose revolutionary ideas about government intervention in the economy profoundly shaped modern macroeconomics and policies adopted during and after the Great Depression.


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instanceOf academic
author
civil servant
economist
human
macroeconomist
almaMater University of Cambridge
birthDate 1883-06-05
birthPlace Cambridge, England
causeOfDeath heart attack
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
deathDate 1946-04-21
deathPlace Tilton, Firle, Sussex, England
educatedAt Eton College
King's College, Cambridge
employer British Treasury
University of Cambridge
familyName Keynes
fieldOfWork economics
macroeconomics
political economy
probability theory
fullName John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes
givenName John
honorificTitle Baron Keynes of Tilton
ideology liberalism
social liberalism
influenced Keynesian economic policy
New Keynesian economics
fiscal policy during recessions
modern macroeconomics
post-war economic policy in Western countries
welfare state development
influencedBy Alfred Marshall
Arthur Cecil Pigou
Thomas Robert Malthus
knownFor Keynesian economics
advocacy of government intervention in the economy
employment theory
liquidity preference theory of interest
the concept of aggregate demand
the multiplier concept in macroeconomics
language English
marriageDate 1925-08-04
memberOf Bloomsbury Group
British Liberal Party
King's College, Cambridge
middleName Maynard
nationality British
notableWork A Tract on Monetary Reform
A Treatise on Money
A Treatise on Probability
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
participatedIn Bretton Woods Conference
negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles
peerage Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
positionHeld Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
Treasury official, British government
advisor to the British government
editor of The Economic Journal
proposed International Clearing Union
religion agnosticism
residence Cambridge, England
roleInEvent chief British negotiator at Bretton Woods Conference
sexualOrientation bisexual
spouse Lydia Lopokova
theory counter-cyclical fiscal policy
deficit spending during economic downturns
government management of aggregate demand

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Bretton Woods system
Gregory Mankiw
Gunnar Myrdal
Hugh Gaitskell
Jan Tinbergen
John Kenneth Galbraith
John R. Hicks
Leon H. Keyserling
Michael Woodford
Nicholas Kaldor
Trygve Haavelmo
influencedBy
A Revision of the Treaty
A Tract on Monetary Reform
A Treatise on Money
A Treatise on Probability
Book I: Fundamental Ideas
Book II: Fundamental Theorems
Book III: Induction and Analogy
Essays in Biography
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
author
A System of Logic
Alfred Marshall
Arthur Cecil Pigou
Principles of Political Economy
Principles of Political Economy
Thomas Malthus
Thomas Malthus
influenced
Charleston Farmhouse
Duncan Grant
Gordon Square, London
Maynard
Thoby Stephen
Tilton, Firle, Sussex, England
associatedWith
Lydia Lopokova
Lydia Lopokova
Lydia Lopokova ("Lord Keynes")
spouse
Baron Keynes of Tilton
Keynesian economics
namedAfter
Cambridge Apostles
The Apostles
notableMember
Bancor
conceptionBy
Bancor
designedBy
International Clearing Union
designer
John Maynard Keynes ("Keynes")
familyName
Cambridge Arts Theatre
foundedBy
John Maynard Keynes ("John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes")
fullName
University of Cambridge
hasAlumnus
Baron Keynes of Tilton
hasFirstHolder
Great Depression
hasKeyFigure
Bloomsbury Group
hasMember
New Statesman
hasNotableContributor
Lydia Lopokova
hasSpouse
Baron Keynes of Tilton
hasTitleHolder
Maynard
isMiddleNameOf
United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference
keyPerson
Hogarth Press
notableAuthorPublished
Lydia Lopokova
notableRelative
Baron Keynes of Tilton
usedBy
Book II: Fundamental Theorems
workOf
A Treatise on Money
writtenBy

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