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

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

Milton Keynes has seen fly-tipping fall by more than a quarter over the past five years, but the city council believes "there is much more to do".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

The pair have reunited on stage a number of times in recent years and spoke to BBC News ahead of a major concert in Milton Keynes on Friday to mark the album's 30th anniversary.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

The ideas current when John Maynard Keynes was at Cambridge shaped the economic programs he would champion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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