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John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB (5 June – 21 April ) was a Britisheconomist.
His ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a big impact on modern economic and political theory. His ideas also had a big impact on many governments' tax and economic policies. He said governments should use tax and banking measures to stop the effects of economic recessions, depressions and booms.
John Maynard Keynes: a biography ; Authors: Skidelsky, Robert Jacob Alexander ; Publisher: London: Macmillan ; Subject: Großbritannien | United Kingdom |.
He is one of the fathers of modern theoretical macroeconomics.
Biography
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[change | change source]John Maynard Keynes was born at 7 Melville Road, Cambridge, England.
His father was John Neville Keynes, an economics lecturer at Cambridge University. His mother was Florence Ada Brown, a successful author and a social reformer.
Keynes is universally acknowledged as both the greatest and the most influential economist of the twentieth century.
His younger brother, Geoffrey Keynes (–) was a surgeon and bibliophile (book lover). His younger sister Margaret (–) married the Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Archibald Hill.
Keynes first went to