John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, England, in 1883, the son of an economist and a mother who later became the city's mayor. He studied mathematics at King's College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow, and he worked at the India Office and later the Treasury. As a Treasury official at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, he opposed the heavy reparations demanded of Germany and resigned; his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace made him famous. He was part of the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists, married the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova, and was a successful investor. In The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), written during the Great Depression, he argued that economies can remain stuck with high unemployment and that government spending can raise demand. His ideas, called Keynesian economics, shaped the policies of many governments for decades. During the Second World War he advised the British Treasury and helped design the Bretton Woods system of international finance. He died in Sussex in 1946.

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Faith: An agnostic all his life, according to Cambridge University. Source: Wikipedia