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

Example Sentences

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Keynes

Trusts with the sharpest declines in performance - including Buckinghamshire Healthcare, University Hospitals Dorset, Milton Keynes University Hospital, East Cheshire, and Torbay and South Devon - told the BBC they face pressures across the board.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

As the late British economist John Maynard Keynes reminded us, trees do not grow to the sky.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

Natasha, who has been living in a hotel in Milton Keynes for the last four months with her son Zayd, is one of those waiting for a permanent home.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Published between 1983 and 2000, Skidelsky’s three-volume biography brilliantly presented a full portrait of Keynes as a thinker, a policymaker and, most engagingly, a man.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

But to paraphrase Keynes: in the long run, we’ll all be broke, at least those of us who work for low wages and live in exorbitantly overpriced motels.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich