About
John Maynard Keynes, born in Cambridge, is a major figure of 20th-century economics. Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he taught economics there from 1911 to 1937. As Treasury representative at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, he resigned in protest over the Treaty of Versailles, which he criticized in The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919). His magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), founded modern macroeconomics. A member of the Bloomsbury Group, he married ballerina Lydia Lopokova in 1925. He helped design the IMF and World Bank at Bretton Woods (1944) and was elevated to the peerage in 1942.
* 1883-06-05 — † 1946-04-21
Major works
- The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)essay
- A Treatise on Probability (1921)treatise
- A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)essay
- A Treatise on Money (1930)treatise
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)treatise
Key milestones
- 1919Resigned from the British Treasury in protest over the Treaty of Versailles.
- 1936Published The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
- 1944Represented Britain at the Bretton Woods conference, helping design the IMF and World Bank.
Themes
MacroeconomicsMonetary policyEmploymentState interventionUncertainty
Sources: archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk · archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk
