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Name: John Maynard Keynes
Variant Name: Tilton, 1st Baron of
Birth Date: June 5, 1883
Death Date: April 21, 1946
Place of Birth: Cambridge, England
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: economist

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Biography of John Maynard Keynes
1,862 words, approx. 6 pages
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron of Tilton (1883-1946), was an English economist who revolutionized economic theory and policy by linking employment and income to public and private expenditure. He is also known for his role in the creation of new...


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John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton ( 5 June 1883 - 21 April 1946 ) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics , had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies....


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Keynes, John Maynard : Topics in Social Science
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The son of John Neville Keynes, a Cambridge economist, philosopher and administrator, and Florence Ada (Brown), Cambridge’s first woman town councillor and later its mayor, Maynard Keynes made contributions that extended well beyond academic...
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Keynes, John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton
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(born June 5, 1883, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.—died April 21, 1946, Firle, Sussex) British economist, known for his revolutionary theories on the causes of prolonged unemployment. The son of the distinguished economist John Neville Keynes...
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Keynes, John Maynard (1883–1946) Summary
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Keynes, John Maynard(1883–1946) The English economist John Maynard Keynes, the son of a distinguished Cambridge logician and economist, was one of the most brilliant and influential men of the twentieth century. His role as the architect and...
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John Maynard Keynes Information
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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB (pronounced /ˈkeɪnz/ "cains") (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many...


News and Journals
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National Review
John Maynard Keynes.
06/14/1985: 830 words, approx. 3 pages
ROY HARROD's "official" biography of John Maynard Keynes, published in 1951, was a most unwelcome kind of tour de force: a boring book about a fascinating man. One would have thought it impossible to write dully about an economist who claimed that his...
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The Washington Post
The World According to John Maynard Keynes
01/02/1994: 1,025 words, approx. 3 pages
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: The Economist as Savior: Vol. 2: 1920-1937 By Robert Skidelsky Penguin. 731 pp. $37.50 WHEN HARVARD's Joseph Schumpeter died in 1950, he was the most famous economist then alive. But earlier, when John Maynard Keynes died...
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AP News
Today in history - July 29
7/29/2007: 585 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Sunday, July 29, the 210th day of 2007. There are 155 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 29, 1981, Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer in a resplendent ceremony at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. (The couple divorced in...
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The New York Observer
U.S. Health Care Falls Short
8/14/2007: 389 words, approx. 1 pages
To the Editor: Presidential primary voters of 2008, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains of delusion. As Joe Conason indicated in his critique of the G.O.P.’s fear-mongering campaign tactics [“G.O.P. Tries Big Health-Care Scare,” Aug. 13], the only specter haunting America...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Paul Lambert
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In the following excerpt, which is a translation of chapter five from his study L'oeuvre de John Maynard Keynes, Lambert provides a chronological study of Keynes's writings, portraying the economist as the founder of a "new liberalism" that sought to reconcile the individualistic spirit of capitalism with the need for government intervention to ensure full employment.
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Critical Essay by Bill Gerrard
10,515 words, approx. 35 pages

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Economics in the last fifty years has been mainly Keynesian economics, inspired by Keynes' General Theory. Keynes challenged classical theory, the then prevailing orthodoxy in economics. Classical theory concluded that the economy tends automatically to a position of full employment if the price mechanism is free to operate in all markets. Keynes claimed to have broken away from this orthodoxy by showing that it is possible for involuntary unemployment to occur without any auto...
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Critical Essay by Josef Steindl
10,367 words, approx. 35 pages
In the following excerpt, Steindl judges the contemporary relevance of Keynes's ideas. Basing his arguments on a discussion of several key topics in the criticism on Keynes, he outlines the main points of Keynes's economic theory, illustrates how the unorthodox content of the General Theory developed out of Keynes's active involvement in the formulation of economic policy during the 1920s and 1930s, identifies the focal points in the critical attacks on the General Theory, discusses th...
 
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John Maynard Keynes
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Considered the father of macroeconomics, John Maynard Keynes had a great deal of influence in both economics and politics. Keynes' theories on government intervention and moderation of the economy helped to achieve the end of the Great Depression, economic stabilization, and relative peace.


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