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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, was an English economist whose writings are considered the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, as well as its various offshoots. Originally trained in mathematics, he built on and refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles. His ideas, further developed after his death as New Keynesianism, are seen as foundational to mainst…
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Born 5 June 1883 · Died 21 April 1946 · Q9317
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El Congresista: John Maynard Keynes y la teoría del concurso de belleza en finanzas explican cómo operan los mercados.
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“the youth had no religion save communism and this was worse than nothing.”
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“s Council of Economic Advisers:”
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“s ideas were diluted by those keen to compromise with classical economists or to render his concepts with mathematical models like the IS–LM model (which, they argue, distort Keynes”
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“s Law by asking what would happen if the money that is being given to individuals is not finding its way back into the economy and is saved instead. He suggested the result would be a recession. To tackle the fear of a recession Say”
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“applications of this theory to practice”
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“An Enjoyable Life Puzzling Over Modern Finance Theory”
“The Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy”
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It reported that "his radical idea that governments should spend money they don't have may have saved capitalism"
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“Keynes Was a Sophist, and a Good Thing, Too”
Alan Blinder wrote about a "Keynesian Restoration", as work based on Keynes's ideas had to some extent become fashionable once again in academia, though in the mainstream it was highly synthesised with monetarism and oth
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“On Interpreting Keynes: A Study in Reconciliation”
The Federal Reserve officially discarded monetarism, after which Keynesian principles made a partial comeback as an influence on policy-making
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“Процитирована в журнале The Economist (13 Февраля 1982), с. 11”
Keynes had no children, and his wife outlived him by 35 years, dying in 1981.
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But forces had begun to gather against Keynes's ideas over 30 years earlier
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“John Maynard Keynes: Economist, Author, Statesman”
With the increasing influence of monetarist schools of thought in the 1980s, and particularly in the face of large sustained trade imbalances, these concerns – and particularly concerns about the destabilising effects of
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Milton Friedman published a paper arguing that the fixed relationship implied by the Phillips curve did not exist
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“Comment on my 1936 review of Keynes' general theory.”
“An open letter from a Keynesian to a Marxist”
With the explicit intention of nurturing intellectual currents to one day displace Keynesianism and other similar influences
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Died 1946-04-21.
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“Jedynym środkiem zapewniającym przybliżenie się do stanu pełnego zatrudnienia okaże się uspołecznienie inwestycji w dość szerokim zakresie (…).”
Keynes told Henry Clay, a professor of social economics and advisor to the Bank of England, of his hopes that Adam Smith's "invisible hand" could help Britain out of the economic hole it was in: "I find myself more and m
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Schumpeter's obituary gave Keynes this same off-key, perfunctory treatment he would later give Adam Smith in the History of Economic Analysis, the 'discredit of not adding a single innovation to the techniques of economi
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His net worth stood just short of £500,000 – equivalent to £24,000,000 in 2024
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Keynes suffered a series of heart attacks, which ultimately proved fatal
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“Do pieniędzy przywiązujemy tak wielką wagę dlatego, że są łącznikiem pomiędzy teraźniejszością a przyszłością.”
“Głosy, które – przy takiej koniunkturze – mówią nam, że ścieżką wyjścia z kryzysu jest restrykcyjne gospodarowanie i powstrzymywanie się, gdy tylko można, od wykorzystywania globalnego potencjału produkcji, to głosy idiotów i szaleńców.”
“Idee głoszone przez ekonomistów oraz myślicieli politycznych, bez względu na to, czy są słuszne, czy błędne, mają większą siłę, niż się powszechnie przypuszcza.”
“Opis: cytat przypisywany.”
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
“Ludzie praktyki są bardzo czuli na to, co zwykli nazywać stanem zaufania, i przywiązują do tego dużą wagę. Ale ekonomiści nie poddawali tego problemu starannej analizie…”
“Marxism "was founded upon nothing better than a misunderstanding of Ricardo”
“International investment always has been and always should be defaulted. (ang.)”
“Mogę ulegać wpływom tego, co wydaje mi się sprawiedliwe i rozsądne, lecz w walce klas stanę po stronie wykształconej burżuazji.”
“Keynes once remarked that "the youth had no religion save communism and this was worse than nothing.”
“Opis: o świecie globalizacji utraconym w wyniku I wojny światowej.”
“If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.”
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1945).
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“Overseas Financial Policy in Stage III" (1945);”
Career landmark: member of the House of Lords (1942–1946).
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“Opis: fragment artykułu z 29 lipca 1940 dla „New Republic” przedstawiającego polityczne nadzieje związane z powojennym społeczeństwem.”
That the war effort should be largely financed by higher taxation and especially by compulsory saving (essentially workers lending money to the government), rather than deficit spending, to avoid inflation
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But for the rest of his life his professional energies were directed largely towards the practical side of economics: the problems of ensuring optimum allocation of resources for the war efforts, post-war negotiations wi
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Keynes had the option to enter Parliament as an independent MP with the University of Cambridge seat
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And, twenty years earlier, to secure his release as a prisoner-of-war in Italy in 1918
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“Opis: w liście do Roya Harroda z 4 lipca 1938.”
Described as "still my religion under the surface"
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Requiring him to take long periods of rest
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“the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists.”
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After which the two men spoke highly of each other
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Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society (1933).
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“Essays in Biography (1933)”
“Opis: fragment referatu wygłoszonego w 1933 w Dublinie.”
Keynes published The Means to Prosperity, which contained specific policy recommendations for tackling unemployment in a global recession, chiefly counter-cyclical public spending
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In an article entitled The Pro- and Anti-Tariffs, published in The Listener, he envisaged the protection of farmers and certain sectors such as the automobile and iron and steel industries, considering them indispensable
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Became vice-chairman of the Marie Stopes Society, which provided birth control education
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Received considerable support for his views on counter-cyclical public spending in Chicago, then America's foremost centre for economic views alternative to the mainstream
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Keynes had the following to say on Leninism:
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Friedrich Hayek extensively critiqued Keynes's 1930 Treatise on Money
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“Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it.”
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“Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”
“Przed rokiem 1929 rezerwy amerykańskich firm były tak wielkie, że już choćby to jedno mogło prawdopodobnie wywołać kryzys.”
“time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members.”
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“The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill”
“the class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.”
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With Keynes's former lover Duncan Grant as best man
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They were married in 1925, with Keynes's former lover Duncan Grant as best man. "What a marriage of beauty and brains, the fair Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes" was said at the time.
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Keynes said "the class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie
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Were able to convince the then Chancellor Winston Churchill to re-establish it, which had a depressing effect on British industry
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At pre-war valuation by reference to the wholesale price index
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“the most brilliant life of a man of science I have ever read”
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Keynes wrote an obituary for his former tutor Alfred Marshall which Joseph Schumpeter called "the most brilliant life of a man of science I have ever read"
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“Social Consequences of Changes in The Value of Money”
– a trenchant argument that countries should target stability of domestic prices, avoiding deflation even at the cost of allowing their currency to depreciate
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Keynes continued to advocate reduction of German reparations with A Revision of the Treaty
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In 1921, Keynes wrote that he had fallen "very much in love" with Lydia Lopokova, a well-known Russian ballerina and one of the stars of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.
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Keynes wrote that he had fallen "very much in love" with Lydia Lopokova, a well-known Russian ballerina and one of the stars of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes
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And served as chairman from 1921 to 1938
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Applied for exemption as a conscientious objector, which was effectively granted conditional upon continuing his government work
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Keynes travelled to London at the government's request a few days before hostilities started
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Keynes was made the editor of The Economic Journal
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To serving as director of the British Eugenics Society from 1937 to 1944
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Awarded Adam Smith Prize (1909).
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The artist Duncan Grant has been described as "the supreme male love of Keynes's life", and their sexual relationship lasted from 1908 to 1915.
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In 1906, Keynes had written of this infatuation that, "I seem to have fallen in love with Ray a little bit, but as she isn't male I haven't [been] able to think of any suitable steps to take."
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Keynes had written of this infatuation that, "I seem to have fallen in love with Ray a little bit, but as she isn't male I haven't [been] able to think of any suitable steps to take
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Studied at King's College (1902–1905).
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Keynes left Eton for King's College, Cambridge, after receiving a scholarship for this also, to read mathematics
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Keynes was open about his affairs, and from 1901 to 1915 kept separate diaries in which he tabulated his many sexual encounters.
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Keynes won a King's Scholarship to Eton College, where he displayed talent in a wide range of subjects, particularly mathematics, classics and history; in 1901, he was awarded the Tomline Prize for mathematics
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St Faith's headmaster, Ralph Goodchild, wrote that Keynes was "head and shoulders above all the other boys in the school" and was confident that Keynes could get a scholarship to Eton
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And Geoffrey Keynes in 1887
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Born 1883-06-05.
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