Keynes

American  

[kaynz] / 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

After World War II, economists inspired by John Maynard Keynes thought monetary and fiscal policy could influence inflation and unemployment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Keynes believed that during high unemployment, the government should increase aggregate demand for goods and services by temporarily increasing government spending or temporarily decreasing taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Pallab Ghosh, the BBC's science correspondent, recalled being sceptical when he was sent to meet a "bloke in Milton Keynes who is sending a spaceship to Mars".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 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

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