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

He moved here three years ago from Milton Keynes and works at an IT firm near Deansgate.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Ms. Keynes is an economics columnist at the Financial Times; Mr. Bown is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and was the State Department’s chief economist during the Biden administration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Soumaya Keynes and Chad P. Bown explain what we should do about it.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026

Many students were enthralled by John Maynard Keynes, whose work was revolutionizing the field.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

In the words of Geoffrey Keynes, it ranks ‘among the most important books ever published in the history of science’.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin