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26 unusual facts about John Maynard Keynes


Arthur Laffer

The basic concept was not new; Laffer himself says he learned it from Ibn Khaldun and John Maynard Keynes.

Bertil Ohlin

In 1929 he debated with John Maynard Keynes, contradicting the latter's view on the consequences of the heavy war reparations payments imposed on Germany.

Bretton Woods Conference

This resulted in a fight between, on one side, several European nations, the American and the Norwegian delegation, led by Henry Morgenthau and Harry Dexter White; and on the other side, the British delegation, headed by John Maynard Keynes and Chase Bank representative Dean Acheson, who tried to veto the dissolution of the bank.

John Maynard Keynes proposed the ICU as a way to regulate the balance of trade.

Carlo Scognamiglio

Keynes and the New Millennium Crisis, Treves Editore, Roma 2009.

Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy

When he was the Vice President of the Union Society, John Maynard Keynes (destined to be a world-famous economist later) was the Secretary of the Union Society.

Employment Act of 1946

The theory, set forth by economist John Maynard Keynes and his American disciples such as Alvin Hansen at Harvard, contends that unemployment is caused by insufficient aggregate demand relative to the possible aggregate supply generated by full employment.

Ernst Wigforss

Some who? say that Wigforss' economic policies were strongly influenced by John Maynard Keynes, but he may have anticipated Keynes, because he proposed counter-cyclical economic policy before becoming minister of finance in 1932.

Fear the Boom and Bust

Fear the Boom and Bust is a 2010 hip hop music video in which 20th century economists John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek (played by Billy Scafuri and Adam Lustick, respectively) take part in a rap battle discussing economics, specifically, the boom and bust business cycle, for which the video is named.

Financial history of the Dutch Republic

As John Maynard Keynes has remarked: after the default of foreign borrowers the lending country has nothing, while after a domestic default the country has at least the physical stock that was bought with the loan.

Financial market theory of development

He ends his criticism with a quote from Keynes, “when the capital development of a country becomes the by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.

Gerry McGeer

He eventually came up with his own theories, which he cobbled together from the work of John Maynard Keynes, Abraham Lincoln, and the Bible.

Green cheese

John Maynard Keynes made a reference comparing a green cheese to the moon in his book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

H. C. Coombs

As a student in Perth he was a socialist, but while studying at the London School of Economics he became converted to the economic views of John Maynard Keynes, and he spent the rest of his career pursuing Keynesian solutions to Australia's economic problems.

Havana Charter

The Charter, proposed by John Maynard Keynes, was to establish the ITO and a financial institution called the International Clearing Union (ICU), and an international currency; the bancor.

Henry William Massingham

A change of ownership was putting control in the hands of John Maynard Keynes, a Liberal.

Keynes College, Kent

It was named, after much debate, after the economist John Maynard Keynes.

Long run and short run

A famous critique of neglecting short-run analysis was by John Maynard Keynes, who wrote that "In the long run, we are all dead," referring to the long-run proposition of the quantity theory of, for example, a doubling of the money supply doubling the price level.

J.M. Keynes (1936) emphasized fundamental factors of a market economy that might result in prolonged periods away from full-employment.

Married Love

In 1935 a survey of American academics said Married Love was one of the 25 most influential books of the previous 50 years, ahead of Relativity by Albert Einstein, Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes.

Nicholas Johannsen

Nicholas August Ludwig Jacob Johansen was a German-American amateur economist, today best known for his influence on and citation by John Maynard Keynes.

Richard Portes

He was the longest serving Secretary-General of the Royal Economic Society (1992–2008) since John Maynard Keynes.

Timeline of the United Kingdom home front during World War II

: The Government releases a White Paper by John Maynard Keynes, announcing its post-war currency stabilization plan designed to provide an international banking system.

White Paper on Full Employment in Australia

The basic ideas behind the White Paper were those set out by John Maynard Keynes in his 1936 work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

William Forgan Smith

Like Roosevelt, his policies were similar to the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes.

William L. Holland

In 1934, he took a Masters degree at King’s College, Cambridge University, in economics, studying with John Maynard Keynes among others.


David Bensusan-Butt

A nephew of the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, and the son of Dr Ruth Bensusan-Butt (1877–1957), the first woman doctor to work in Essex, Bensusan-Butt was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a student of John Maynard Keynes and indexed Keynes's magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Friedrich von Wieser

By contrast, authors such as John Maynard Keynes, Vladimir Lenin, Paul Baran and Gunnar Myrdal came to be greatly appreciated by the academy and by centers of power for providing theoretical justification for economic intervention, when searching for measures to prop up plutocratic regimes.

International Clearing Union

The International Clearing Union (ICU) was one of the institutions proposed to be set up at the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in the United States, by British economist John Maynard Keynes.

Nobuo Okishio

Okishio critically investigated non-Marxian economists with a lot of energy, especially Keynes and Harrod.

Oscar Hartzell

On October 11, 1930, John Maynard Keynes was arguing in an article for deficit spending to alleviate the Depression and mentioned that Queen Elizabeth had invested Drake's loot—which Drake had given to the crown—for the benefit of the country.

Ralph George Hawtrey

Sir Ralph George Hawtrey (22 November 1879, Slough – 21 March 1975, London) was a British economist, and a close friend of John Maynard Keynes.

Sawtry Community College

St Andrews and St Judith are then split into 6 houses: Royce, Sinclair, Keynes, Darwin, Eliot and Clarkson.

Value and Capital

The book synthesises dynamic-adjustment elements from Walras and Wicksell and from Marshall and Keynes.

Victoria Chick

As a research student she was taught by Hyman Minsky (among others), although her interest in Keynes and his General Theory developed much later.

Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe

According to author Peter L. Bernstein, Cunliffe criticized one of the committee's dissenting members, a young John Maynard Keynes, by stating that "Mr. Keynes, in commercial circles, is not considered to have any knowledge or experience in practical exchange or business problems."