Keynes

American  

[keynz] / keɪnz /

noun

1. John Maynard, 1st Baron, 1883–1946, English economist and writer.

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Keynes British  

/ keɪnz /

noun

1. John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes. 1883–1946, English economist. In The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) he argued that unemployment was characteristic of an unregulated market economy and therefore to achieve a high level of employment it was necessary for governments to manipulate the overall level of demand through monetary and fiscal policies (including, when appropriate, deficit financing). He helped to found the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

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Other Word Forms

• Keynesianism
  noun
• Keynesian
  adjective

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Keynes

Yet for all his criticisms of Hayek, Skidelsky affirms that Hayek and Keynes were at one in their desire to preserve liberal civilization from the radicals of the left and right in their time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

This debate about employment and inflation brings us to a subterranean theme running through Skidelsky’s book: the clash between Keynes and Hayek.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Keynes, he thinks, was in the more serious business of enabling humanity to “quit the realm of necessity and enter the realm of freedom” by pursuing aesthetic goods like beauty, art and harmonious relationships.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Keynes had little by way of formal training in philosophy or, for that matter, economics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

According to his biographer, John Maynard Keynes, He was rather a Judaic Monotheist of the school of Maimonides.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan