John Maynard Keyens

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John maynard keynes was born on June 5 1883 in cambridge, cambridge shire, england died on april 21 1946 in firle, sussex, England. keynes was th son of a professor of economics, john Neville Keynes a loving father devoted to keynes author of scope and method of political economy and his mother Florence Ada Keynes a social reformer and Mayor of cambridge she was a great advocating pension for elderly living in povety servce for deserving poor and reinteggrsating inmates back into society she was also loving mother devoted to Keynes. Kenyes also had a brother named Geoffrey Keynes who was knighted for work on blood transfusion and married a granddaughter of charles darwin and sister Margaret Keynes who married Archibald Hill, noble prize winner of physiologist. Keynes was destined by family connection to be influetial in the narrow british university world, keynes started his studies at eton and king college cambridge where in 1904 earned ba in Mathematics and ended up studing at Cambridge. during cambrige he was the president of the cambrsibridge liberal club promosted redistribution of wealth and favored government invovlement in the economy and was aslso part of camridge apostle creepy society debating fourm for members that included many prominet mathematicians and phlilosophers.Kenyes was a member of the Bloomsbury group, a group made up of bohemian thinkers and doers who revolted against the manners and morals of the victorian era. to keynes this was important since at the time he was a homosexual and it was common for the members of the bloomsbury group to have homosexual relations within members of the group. Keynes relationships consited of Dilly Knox, a codebreaker, Daniel Macmillan who helped him publish Economic Consequ... ... middle of paper ... ...rough higher taxation in times of economic growth. the book also contrasted classical theory of economics. Keynes claimes that classical economica are applicable to only special cases which happen not to be those of the economic society in which we actually live.Milton Friedman and other economists who were pessimistic about the ability of governments to regulate the business cycle with fiscal policy.Argued that consumption expenditure responds to changes in permanent income not tempeporary changes in income. And that monetary factors have greater significance than Keyne allowed. in order to support his theor friedman publish studies in the quantity theory of money.Keynes also served as representative for Great britian in the 1944 Brenton Wood convention that set up the international monetary Fund and the world bank. Kenyes died april 21 1946 due to health problems.

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