John Maynard Keynes

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Q: Where was John Maynard Keynes educated?

John Maynard Keynes studied at Eaton College (1897–1902) and at King’s College, Cambridge , where he received a B.A. in mathematics in 1905. Having completed a revised dissertation on probability , he was elected a fellow of King’s College in 1909.

Q: What were John Maynard Keynes’s jobs?

John Maynard Keynes was an economic analyst in the India Office, a teacher at Cambridge , the de facto financial manager of Britain’s war effort during World War I , and (in an unpaid capacity) the country’s chief economic representative to the United States and international fora during and immediately after World War II .

Q: What did John Maynard Keynes write?

John Maynard Keynes’s most influential work was The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1935–36). His other works included Indian Currency and Finance (1913), The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Treatise on Probability (1921), A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), A Treatise on Money (1930), and many scholarly and journalistic articles.

Q: Why is John Maynard Keynes important?

The basic and revolutionary idea of Keynesian economics —that recessions can be mitigated and unemployment more effectively reduced by government spending designed to increase aggregate demand —strongly influenced the fiscal policies of Western governments until the 1970s and later inspired successful responses by many governments to the Great Recession of 2007–09 .

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Category: History & Society

Born:: June 5, 1883, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Died:: April 21, 1946, Firle, Sussex (aged 62)

Notable Works:: “A Treatise on Money”; “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”; “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”

Notable Family Members:: father John Neville Keynes

Subjects Of Study:: World War I; government economic policy; Germany; bank deposit; reparations

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Where was John Maynard Keynes educated?

What were John Maynard Keynes’s jobs?

What did John Maynard Keynes write?

Why is John Maynard Keynes important?

John Maynard Keynes (born June 5, 1883, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England—died April 21, 1946, Firle, Sussex) was an English economist, journalist, and financier best known for his economic theories (Keynesian economics) on the causes of prolonged unemployment. His most important work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1935–36), advocated a remedy for economic recession based on a government-sponsored policy of full employment. Keynes was born into a moderately prosperous family. His father, John Neville Keynes, was an economist and later an academic administrator at King’s College, Cambridge. His mother was one of the first female graduates of the same ...(100 of 1096 words)

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