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  Keynes, John Maynard, Baron Keynes of Tilton. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Keynes served (1906–08) in the India Office of the civil service, where he was concerned with problems of Indian currency.
Keynes criticized the Versailles Treaty for its vindictiveness, specifically the impossibly high reparations levied on the Germans, and for its abandonment of the relatively free pre-1914 economy based on gold and low tariffs.
Keynes was influential at Bretton Woods (1944) in the proposals for the establishment of a world bank to stimulate growth in underdeveloped areas.
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 Biographies: The Economists: Lord John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946).
Further, Keynes came to the view that a national budget was to serve not only the purpose of good financial planning for government revenues and expenditures; but, that, it ought to be used as a major instrument in the planning of the national economy.
It was at Cambridge that Keynes' connection was to first develop, to an influential group of artists which we know as the "Bloomsbury Group." The "Bloomsbury Group" consisted of such artists as Virginia Woolf, Arnold Bennett, H.
Keynes appreciated their erudite company and they were pleased to have a "scientist" (the thought being that an economist was such) to whom they might turn; and, too, Keynes was a man who was high up with those who set government policy.
www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Keynes.htm   (1395 words)

  
 Keynes
In 1942, Keynes was a highly recognized economist and was raised to the House of Lords as Baron Keynes, of Tilton in the County of Sussex, where he sat on the Liberal benches.
Keynes' brilliant record as a stock investor is demonstrated by the publicly available data of a fund he managed on behalf of King's College, Cambridge.
Keynes' theories were so influential, even when disputed, that a subfield of Macroeconomics called Keynesian economics is further developing and discussing his theories and their applications.
www.link-ex.net /wiki_en/?title=Keynes   (2829 words)

  
 The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page
Keynes, by contrast, was deeply versed in the economic theory of his time, and understood the power of that body of theory.
Keynes made it clear that his skepticism about the effectiveness of monetary policy was a contingent proposition, not a statement of a general principle.
Keynes emphasizes the relative stability of the relationship between income and consumer spending; trying to ground that stability in rational choice may be wrong-headed, but doesn’t undermine his intent.
www.pkarchive.org /economy/GeneralTheoryKeynesIntro.html   (5349 words)

  
 keynes
Keynes publishes in 1936 the " general Theory of employment, the interest and the currency ".
Originality of Keynes : With the occasion of the crisis of 1929, John Maynard Keynes formulated a coherent criticism of the classical theory and preached a certain intervention of the State.
For Keynes, the full employment of the working population is assured only under very particular conditions balance between consumption and the investment.
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 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
John Keynes was born in Cambridge, England in 1883 to a family of noteworthy intellectuals.
Keynes did not merely pronounce the end of laissez-faire; he proposed that man could still his own sea, metaphorically speaking, by effectually counterbalancing the disparity of demand and thereby controlling unemployment and investment.
When times are poor, Keynes suggested that the government must boost aggregate demand with increased spending or reduced taxes, and that it was tolerable for a government to run a budget deficit in such circumstances; when the good times roll again, the government could then trim spending and pay off its earlier debts.
www.columbia.edu /cu/econsoc/content/archive/current/keynes.html   (744 words)

  
 John Maynard Keynes, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
Keynes was born in Cambridge and attended King's College, Cambridge, where he earned his degree in mathematics in 1905.
Keynes was a prominent journalist and speaker, and one of the famous Bloomsbury Group of literary greats, which included Virginia Woolf and Bertrand Russell.
Keynes wrote it to object to the punitive reparations payments imposed on Germany by the Allied countries after World War I. The amounts demanded by the Allies were so large, he wrote, that a Germany that tried to pay them would stay perpetually poor and, therefore, politically unstable.
www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Keynes.html   (984 words)

  
 John Maynard Keynes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Keynes published his Treatise on Probability in 1921, a notable contribution to the philosophical and mathematical underpinnings of probability theory.
Keynes was editor in chief for the Economic journal from 1912.
Keynes' brother Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887 – 1982) was a distinguished surgeon, scholar and bibliophile.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes   (2887 words)

  
 John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was a student of Alfred Marshall at Cambridge University and later served as a Cambridge don himself.
Even when Keynes returned to academia as a professor, he continued to combine the "life of the mind" with an active role in public policy debates, consulting for the British government, and writing popular pieces for the British press.
Indeed, Keynes was one of the key figures involved in the Bretton Woods Conference (1944 in New Hampshire) where influential political and intellectual figures from both sides of the Atlantic came together to rethink international monetary and, more generally, economic policies.
www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/sgabriel/keynes.htm   (584 words)

  
 John Maynard Keynes: Lavender & Bolshevik
Keynes was characterized by his male sweetheart, Lytton Strachey, as “A liberal and a sodomite, an atheist and a statistician.” His particular depravity was the sexual abuse of little boys.
Keynes and his conspirators projected homosexuality and drug addiction as an intrinsic part of their collectivist society of the future.
Keynes and his fellow debauchees became active pacifists and conscientious objectors during World War I. The socialist position against military service dovetailed perfectly with the homosexual aversion to any kind of physical danger and the manly requirements of military training.
www.knology.net /~bilrum/keynes.htm   (2237 words)

  
 Keynes at Larvatus Prodeo
Keynes’ intuition, and his sensitivity to context were demonstrated shortly after the publication of the General Theory when he used the theory not to expand demand but to curtail it, to control inflation in managing Britain’s war economy.
Keynes came to argue that the fearful psychology of the miser constantly threatened to over-stimulate the instinct for thrift and inhibit the ‘animal spirits’ of investors, creating a perennial threat of excessive savings and slump.
Keynes stormed the citadel of orthodoxy with compelling paradoxes and Wildean reversals in which the virtues went punished and sinners were blessed.
larvatusprodeo.net /2006/02/09/keynes   (4527 words)

  
 John Maynard Keynes
Interested in literature and philosophy, Keynes was invited to join the Apostles, a small, secret society of dons and undergraduates who met to discuss ethical and political issues.
Keynes was a pacifist but wanted to contribute to Britain's war effort.
Keynes was extremely active in his campaign to encourage the government to take more responsibility for running the economy.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUkeynes.htm   (1137 words)

  
 TAP: Vol 5, Iss. 16. Citizen Keynes. John Eatwell.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Skidelsky's skill in blending together contemporary economics, politics, and ongoing intellectual controversy in a variety of disciplines, together with a cast of characters ranging from Asquith to Diaghilev, from FDR to Wittgenstein, from Lloyd George to Virginia Woolf, all in a beautifully written narrative, is simply superb.
The demand function for investment (which Keynes called the marginal efficiency of capital schedule) was the Trojan horse that allowed the forces of his enemies to attack the very heart of Keynes's case for an under-employment equilibrium and hence for active government.
In one stroke the critical task in which Keynes had failed was accomplished, and the marginal efficiency of capital schedule was swept away too.
www.prospect.org /print/V5/16/eatwell-j.html   (4524 words)

  
 Keynes (print-only)
Keynes was appointed secretary of a Commission to examine Indian Finance and Currency in 1913 and he began to seek a publisher for his major treatise on probability based on his fellowship dissertation.
Keynes made strenuous attempts to acquire the manuscripts after the sale and these attempts are described in [18].
In 1942 Keynes was elevated to the peerage and took his seat in the House of Lords, where he sat on the Liberal benches.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Printonly/Keynes.html   (2177 words)

  
 John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
Keynes claimed that the government needed to stimulate the economy in times of recession.
Before Keynes it was believed that the economy would keep improving; even to Marx, a failure would be only temporary and would eventually fix itself.
Keynes believed that the economy could stagnate, and remain in that state, even if there were unused resources.
library.thinkquest.org /16500/EconoHistory/page5.html   (563 words)

  
 John Maynard Keynes
The son of the Cambridge economist and logician John Neville Keynes, John Maynard Keynes was bred in British elite institutions - Eton and then King's College Cambridge.
Throughout the 1920s, Keynes remained active in public policy debates, channeled mainly through his numerous articles in the Nation and Atheneum, a Liberal-Labour weekly magazine which he helped purchase in 1923 (it was absorbed by the New Statesman in 1931).
The key was provided to Keynes in a short article by Richard Kahn (1931) -- the theory of the income-expenditure multiplier -- which was to be the basis of his future revolution.
cepa.newschool.edu /het/profiles/keynes.htm   (2466 words)

  
 John Maynard Keynes [Virtual Economy]
His main contribution to the economics debate of the time was in putting together a coherent critique of the existing classical economic theory that dominated policy-making circles.
Keynes' father was an economist and his mother was Mayor of Cambridge for some time.
Keynes went to Eton (as a scholar) and then went on to King's College Cambridge to study Classics and Maths.
www.bized.co.uk /virtual/economy/library/economists/keynes.htm   (324 words)

  
 Keynes Was Right
The influence of economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) is still profound in government circles.
The full flowering of Keynes' economic thought occurred toward the end of his career, when he "discovered" the mistake of classical economists, who held that, when goods were in surplus, the best role of government was to allow wages and prices to fall, until an equilibrium was resumed.
Keynes gave the whole thing respectability, which, in fact, is an odd term to use regarding Keynes, a member of the Bloomsbury group of leftist amoralists.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig3/hein6.html   (779 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Keynes: Books: D. E. Moggridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Keynes seems to have thought of the structure of his argument before he put pencil to paper.
Keynes made friends with the Americans in the course of working for the treasury department during World War I. In 1918 he bought four works of art by Delacroix, Ingres, and Cezanne.
Keynes was mindful of the postwar consequences of wartime acts.
www.amazon.com /Keynes-D-E-Moggridge/dp/0802069517   (1049 words)

  
 glbtq >> social sciences >> Keynes, John Maynard
Keynes was born on June 5, 1883 in Cambridge, England, the son of a Cambridge economics professor and one of the first female graduates of Cambridge, a woman who would later serve as mayor of the city.
Keynes, Strachey, and Woolf formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury group, which also included such important and successful figures as painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, novelists Virginia Woolf and E. Forster, art critics Clive Bell and Roger Fry, and psychoanalysts James and Alix Strachey.
Keynes's relationship with Grant was his first happy and significant relationship with a man. Over the next few years Keynes and Grant led active lives, dividing their time between Cambridge (where Keynes accepted an academic appointment in 1908) and London, academic duties and artistic pursuits, friends and work.
www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/keynes_jm.html   (753 words)

  
 The Keynesian Model
Keynes, whose earlier work had made him one of the world's most respected economists, offered a new framework for approaching the questions of recession and unemployment.
There is controversy about what Keynes really meant, but this controversy is of no importance to us.
Although some economists argue that the development of "Keynesian" economics in the 1940s and 1950s involved distortions of the true message of Keynes, it is these developments that had become the conventional wisdom of economics by 1965.
www.ingrimayne.com /econ/Keynes/Overview12ma.html   (375 words)

  
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Known as the father of modern economics, Keynes was educated at Cambridge University where he formed a life-long friendship with Bloomsbury writer Lytton Strachey.
The son of the Cambridge economist and logician John Neville Keynes, John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, England on June 5, 1883.
Keynes father John Neville Keynes was a logician and an economist.
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 THE TROUBLE WITH KEYNES
The economics of John Maynard Keynes as taught to university sophomores for the last several decades is now defunct in theory—but not in practice.
Keynes held that the economy normally fluctuates well within these two extremes experiencing a general insufficiency—and an occasional supersufficiency—of aggregate demand.
But to understand the actual effects of their demand-management policies in the long run as well as the short, we need a more enlightening theory—one that recognizes what market forces can do on their own to maintain macroeconomic stability and how those forces are foiled by government-supplied stabilization.
www.auburn.edu /~garriro/fk7trouble.htm   (1949 words)

  
 Milton Keynes travel guide - Wikitravel
Milton Keynes [1] is a city in the South East of England.
Milton Keynes is conveniently located on both the M1 motorway and the West Coast Main Line, and as a result there are a large number of ways to both enter and leave the town.
Visitors who drive to Milton Keynes often get lost on these roads, because they all look the same - the main roads are in tree-lined linear valleys to reduce road noise so there are few landmarks visible to navigate by.
wikitravel.org /en/Milton_Keynes   (870 words)

  
 Milton Keynes - Uncyclopedia
Milton Keynes is, in fact, a mass hallucination caused by mind-control experiments by the Ministry of Defence in 1967.
A weather presenter on GMTV has claimed to have been born in the town, but her claim has widely been rejected on the basis that "weather presenter" and "important" are mutually exclusive.
Other clear signs that Milton Keynes cannot be real are the implausibility of its public "art" (see also concrete cows), the fact that the campusless Open University supposedly is based there, and the Milton Keynes Dons.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Milton_Keynes   (1090 words)

  
 John Maynard Keynes
Neville Keynes, John Maynard Keynes was bred in British elite institutions - Eton and then King's College Cambridge.
During the course of the war, Keynes was the Treasury and set himself to think about the post-war economic order, in particular the monetary order.
Keynes sought to develop an explanation that could explain the determination of aggregate output - and as a consequence, employment.
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