John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was a British economist whose ideas fundamentally transformed economic theory and government policy in the twentieth century. Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, where he studied under Alfred Marshall and Arthur Pigou, Keynes served in the British Treasury during World War I and represented Britain at the Versailles peace conference, where his prescient warnings about the dangers of punitive reparations were published in The Economic Consequences of the Peace. He became a leading public intellectual, writing prolifically on economics, probability, and public affairs while also serving as a successful investor, patron of the arts, and founder of the Arts Theatre in Cambridge. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.