John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)

Abstract

John Maynard Keynes was a man of many parts: one of the great intellectual innovators of our century, and a prominent political figure of the interwar period; generator of a revolution in economic theory, and a major architect of the postwar international monetary order; publicist and literary craftsman, and adviser to presidents and prime ministers; forceful critic and equally forceful advocate of economic policies, and patron of the arts; stock-market speculator, and member of the Bloomsbury Group.