Throughout the history of economics, there have been many experts and professors whose ideas and theories have fundamentally affected our thoughts and practices, but none has been as influential on this subject as John Maynard Keynes. He was a British economist who revolutionized economic thinking and to this day his work continues to be appreciated and utilized by many into what is known as “Keynesian Economics.”
John Maynard Keynes was an Englishman born in 1883, who went on to become one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century. We know this economist best for Keynesian economics which is described as the economies success is predicated on aggregate demand, meaning that there is complete spending in the economy in order to increase employment and decrease inflation as more money is circulated in the economy. Many of Keynes ideas have been expanded upon by other by modern day economists. They use Keynes ideas to expand, critique and help to initiate economic studies into today’s world. Keynesian economics is described “as a sort of yardstick that can define virtually all economists who came after him”. (Keynes, 2008)
In this study of John Maynard Keynes, we will be able to see how he contributed to current management practices and more specifically how he had a hand in influencing the field of economics. With this exploration of John Maynard Keynes, we will see how he influenced the world of economics and how he helped to develop the economy in one of its most prosperous times. While Keynes was becoming a great economist and helping to reshape the views of other economists, Britain itself was going through hard times and that brought about many changes in Keynes’s ideas.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the united states from 1933 to 1945 (and the distant cousin of Theodore Roosevelt), was the first to convert to Keynes’s theories. He implemented massive public works programs to put people to work. Called the “New Deal”, an echo of Theodore Roosevelt’s square deal, it consisted of a series of programs from 1933 to 1938. As well as providing employment through massive works projects such as the Tennessee valley authority, which built dams to generate electricity. New deal programs provided emergency relief, reformed the banking system, and tried to invigorate agriculture and the economy. Many other programs were also put into place with were used to attemp...
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John Maynard Keynes, British economist, journalist, was born on June 5th 1883, in Cambridge, England. His father, Dr. John Neville Keynes, was an economist and a philosopher. Keynes attended Eton and then Cambridge University. At first he studied Mathematics but then turned his attention to Economics when he was offered the job at the British treasurer after the First World War when the British economy was at pressure. A man who gained a modicum amount of wealth during 1919 to 1938, married to Lydia Lopokova in 1926 and passed away in April 21st, 1946. Keynes believed that price level has to be stabled in order to have a stabled economy, and that is only possible if interest rates go down when prices rise. He also believed that the market forces alone will not deliver full employment but boosting government spending (main force of the economy in Keynes theory) will aim in his theory full employment or close to that. He believes by Governments intervening and spending will finally stop recession, unemployment and most importantly depression. For spending will increase the aggregate demand of the economy.
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The theory of economics does not furnish a body of settled conclusions immediately applicable to policy. It is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique for thinking, which helps the possessor to draw correct conclusions. The ideas of economists and politicians, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist." (John Maynard Keynes, the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money p 383)
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