John Maynard Keynes is one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. He was born into a family of Cambridge academics and went to Eton College and Cambridge University. At Cambridge he served briefly on the teaching staff.
Keynes made a name for himself both as an economist and a public intellectual. It was, broadly speaking, Keynesian economics which ushered in the period of prosperity enjoyed by Europe and North America in the period from the end of the Second World War to the 1980s, a decade notable for the free-market counter-revolution of the UK’s Margaret Thatcher and the USA’s Ronald Reagan.
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